Guest column: Roses for a daughter

On the day before Valentine’s Day last month, I took roses to my married daughter.  I buy her flowers every Valentine’s Day because I want to show her that I honor her, and that I will always love her, more than any other man ever will.

Even when she was a little girl, I would buy her flowers.  She just knows now—that’s what her dad does, buy her flowers.

Flowers are embedded in her middle name: Xochiquetzal, the Aztec goddess of beauty, flowers and love.  From Wikipedia:  “Unlike several other figures in the complex of Aztec female earth deities connected with agricultural and sexual fecundity, Xochiquetzal is always depicted as an alluring and youthful woman, richly attired and symbolically associated with vegetation and in particular flowers.”

I also make sure that her 6-year-old son sees me take her flowers.  This way he knows how to treat his mother, his future wife, and possibly one day his own daughter.  I want him to see that a “real man” takes flowers to the women he loves.

I imagine that someday, my daughter will take flowers to my grave, just as I took her flowers in life.  And someday after that, her sons will take flowers to her grave, after a lifetime of showering their mother, with the middle name of a flower goddess, with flowers.

— David Magallanes is the creator of his own enterprise, Real World Projects, a business primarily dedicated to building marketing business networks for the creation of affluence. In this pursuit, Real World Projects constructs distribution outlets for highly reputable products that offer a healthier life and a more vibrant lifestyle, as well as free training and guidance for those who wish to create their own similar enterprise.  David is available for speaking opportunities.  To contact him and for more information, visit and explore the Real World Projects website atwww.realworldprojects.info.

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