Or this....
Or even this....
They see only flowers?
While us wise and experienced adults know very well they are only weeds. And if those flowers/weeds can be representative of the human condition can it also be true that they only look like weeds because of the eyes we see them with? Perhaps the ugly part of the plant represents all the things that went wrong; all the things we screwed up; all the tough times; all the guilt and shame we carry with us. Why does it seem I see only the weeds when they put the flower right on the very top?? The other day Kylie wanted to pick one of those ugly white things to take to her mother and I stopped her, suggesting we could find something better. We never did find anything and she eventually forgot about it. Pretty sad eh? Have to work on that I guess.
I know there are weeds in my life...but my god....the flowers!!!!
"This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness.
Some momentary awareness.
Comes as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice.
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whatever comes,
because each has bent sent
as a guide from beyond"---Rumi
And another one that hit me...
"Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows"---Henry david Thoreau
muito amor
peter
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