More than autumn, spring reminds me that life fleets by, that beauty and youth are not eternal, that of necessity they change and become the fruit that sustains us year round. The other day, the petals of these delicate blossoms danced around me with a rising wind that brought rain. I felt like I was in a snow globe--but that is the wrong image in May. A flower globe, to be sure. This world teems with life, new and pink and fragrant and learning to fly and delightful. For a little while.
I asked the leaf whether it was frightened because it was autumn and the other leaves were falling. The leaf told me, "No. During the whole spring and summer I was completely alive. I worked hard to help nourish the tree, and now much of me is in the tree. I am not limited by this form. I am also the whole tree, and when I go back to the soil, I will continue to nourish the tree. So I don't worry at all. (Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace is Every Step)
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I asked the leaf whether it was frightened because it was autumn and the other leaves were falling. The leaf told me, "No. During the whole spring and summer I was completely alive. I worked hard to help nourish the tree, and now much of me is in the tree. I am not limited by this form. I am also the whole tree, and when I go back to the soil, I will continue to nourish the tree. So I don't worry at all. (Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace is Every Step)
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Love the picture and the sentiment of the writing...
ReplyDeleteBeautiful post and photograph. Very poetic.
ReplyDeleteThank you, all you wrote is clear to me, I'm the child of autumn.
ReplyDeleteThe text is the same good as pictures.
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Ah yes, Sandy, very soon we won't have the new blossoms anymore...Summer will be upon us.
ReplyDeletethank you for these words of inspiration. All that I have been reading this past few weeks emphasizes these points but they are difficult to grasp a lot of times. Somehow you always have the right words that help me feel and understand.
ReplyDeleteLove that photo!!! Love the captions too;)
ReplyDeletea snow globe of flowers an idea to paint
ReplyDeleteI love that picture and post. The circles remains unbroken: the water cycle, the weather cycle, the CO2 cycle, the decay cycle . . .
ReplyDeleteBeautiful picture with beautiful words to compliment it.
ReplyDeleteHave a good week ahead Sandy!!
Sandy, a stunning photo, as ever. And your writing about the transitory nature of beauty is, well, beautiful. Especially the image of you in a flower globe, the petals swirling around you.
ReplyDeleteThanks too for the quote from Thich Nhat Hanh. My daughter graduated from college yesterday, and that idea of nourishing the tree is most meaningful to me at this time.
GOrgeous photo and I LOVE LOVE LOVE the saying! Beautiful and so well spoken
ReplyDeleteNice post. Love the picture too.
ReplyDeleteAgain, simply beautiful!
ReplyDeletelovely picture and composition.
ReplyDeletea blessed week to you, Sandy! :)
Beautiful photo. And beautifully written.
ReplyDeletei love spring also :D lovely shot
ReplyDeleteWill you visit mine Thanks
Very pretty Sandy! Hope ya had a good weekend!! :D
ReplyDeleteThe uncertainties of life... I truly feel that after days of helping to raise funds for the China Earthquake victims. I read and hear the stories coming in. The pain, the griefs of the victims, the horror of Nature's wrath..
ReplyDeleteThis seems more true for me this year, for some reason.
ReplyDeletewow thats pretty flower...Happy WS!
ReplyDeletegreat catch for WS! Have a nice weekdays ahead! mine's up too hope you can drop by.
ReplyDeleteThat's a beautiful picture! Loved the writing as well, never looked at it that way...very profound and poetic!
ReplyDeletewonderful post and also the photo. well done
ReplyDeletebeautiful post, sandy!
ReplyDeleteA beautiful statement there. I suppose we're all a bit like that, placing ideas, hopes, etc, in others.
ReplyDeletei like the quote here. i copied it as i can see wisdom in it.
ReplyDeleteanother lovely post, Sandy! :)
ReplyDeleteNice post. Enjoyed it, Sandy.
ReplyDeleteWhat a touching leaf story :)
ReplyDeleteFlowers..hmmm..I just love pictures of flowers in bloom. Nice one, Sandy!
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely photo :)
ReplyDeleteAnd your post is so appropriate :)
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I love your photo and the words are so true and beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThe words and the photo are perfect...
ReplyDeleteyour writing always warms the heart..
ReplyDeletehave a good week, sandy! God bless.
Loved the writing... every line and every word of it. Beautiful!
ReplyDeleteVery inspiring words that goes with the beautiful flowers.
ReplyDeletevery nice shot and post Sandy..
ReplyDeletegod bless you! :)
Just lovely Sandy. Thanks for sharing. Life and the blossoms are so fleeting,aren't they? Reminds me not to waste precious time. At least I try to remember this.
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lovely picture...
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Beautiful photo and lovely post!
ReplyDeleteHappy WS!
Great post that goes with the photo! Do you still have plum blossoms around?
ReplyDeleteI sent your quote to a friend in California and she wrote back the following to me. I thought you might enjoy reading it.
ReplyDelete"I loved the quote you sent. It moved me. When I read thoughts and feelings like that, I try very hard to experience that same sense of movement in my own life. To try and get a sense of that while being here on earth. To have that flow and sense of connectedness because I know we are all connected at some very intrinsic level. How else could you explain us? I mean you and me finding each other and becoming friends over the internet? Imagine that. The internet, which we cannot physcially see in space. Yet it exists. Just like the two subatomic particles that affect one another, though they be on two different sides of the world. When one spins, the others begins spinning in the same direction at the exact same speed. How is this explained? Only God knows, but it points to an interconnectedness that occurs even at a level we didn't even know existed just a few decades ago. But the quote points to an awareness that we as humans are often ignorant, though there are times when I think that humans can also create "Oh, wow" experiences."
that was a nice sentiment
ReplyDeletesandy, more than the pic, i loved what you wrote. beautiful! :) but the blooms look beautiful, too!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful flowers. It must have felt wonderful having those petals fall on you. I love the thought of a flower globe.
ReplyDeleteThanks for being here.