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We have tasted winter's cold. The holidays of the past month are gone. The New Year is laid out before us.
Snowflakes flutter in our minds, even if not in the air. Many feelings of comfort are inside us, but they battle there with anxieties over what is to come. Our days are overrun with activity and our nights seem too brief to
Yet, as these times challenge our strength and resolve, they also nourish our hope and faith in new beginnings.
As balloon professionals we are blessed to be members of
that strives everyday to stir and support wonderful visions.
We take a little latex, air and imagination and transform them
We frequently build and decorate places, but more than that, we are architects of feelings. We can start simply by delivering magic in a balloon bouquet to a mother, or by striking wonder in her child's eyes as we breathe life into sap from a rubber tree and make a balloon dog.
We extend the thrill as we engage the mother in choosing balloons for decorations or by teaching the child to make a balloon animal of his own.
We are also thrilled, as we realize that we are renewed ... as were the mother and the child. when we move from creature to become a creator.
The mother CREATES positive emotions in those who enjoy her balloon decorations. The child CREATES a balloon figure HIMSELF. Both stimulate a new level of pride in themselves through the potency of the balloon magic they share.
And NOW..... , the revelation and the thrill can come home to YOU because
As a balloon professional, you touch, enrich and stimulate the lives of many others.
You probably will never know the impact you have on the lives of those who live far from you. But, have no doubt. There are those whom you will never meet, that will see and feel ripples from the splash you make with your balloons.
So we say, "Thanks!"
Graham Rouse
Rouse International LLC
Clemson, SC USA
