Tulips, Happy, Love

I know of tulips what I know of any flower, what I learned from my mother who gardened, my landscaper father (with that special green thumb needed for making orchids take root in air)...what I learned about all living things from my loving parents who fostered in me the love needed to bloom, to form feet from my roots and stroll through greater pastures than their garden, though I call them my home: that being happy is about more than mere sunshine and water, that to be happy, we must live for more than ourselves, we must plant our own tulips in our own garden, and shower them with our sunshine love, nourish them with kind words, and sure, lots o'water,