Your bold and vibrant color lifts my spirit and makes me smile! Your family of wavy petals twist and turn each in their own unique way. With your bud and full blossom you give me a visual for the unfolding process that we go through as we grow. Thank you. You are tall and strong and at the same time fragile and vulnerable. As I look at you in full blossom with the baby bud behind you all I can think of is..Mother and child or Big Sister and little sister...family is a gift to all of us.
I see and speak of your outer beauty... Too often...I am tempted to see only the external without ever taking the time to get to know the story of the beauty within. I do not always appreciate the time and patience it takes to grow into fullness.
I look at you and think I know you and yet I know I do not. We your sisters and brothers, of the human family, have lost touch with you and would like to get to know you better. What would you want us to know about you dear flower..I yearn to hear your story and your wisdom.
Dear Assunta,
My story is your story...one of birth...growth...death and continued growth. I am as you said both strong and vulnerable.
Try being a baby bud swirled by wind, drenched by rain, burned by sun, and trying to nourish one self in a dry poisoned soil!! Now that is a worst case scenario but sad to say...that same scene is becoming more and more common for many in the flower and plant families.
Am I a little angry.. yes...I guess I really want you to know what life is like for us at the present time. I know this is not the conversation you expected but will you hear me, please. Yes, you see my beauty and the beauty of my family...but you forget the cost of achieving it at this time.
Sisters wind, rain, and soil are no longer healthy and vibrant because of the humans lack of understanding and respect for our very being. The chemicals and poisons that have been poured into Mother Earth for so long have destroyed and are destroying water, air and soil...the birthing places of the rest of your family members. When they are not healthy, then my health and the health of my family is affected as well... as is yours.
As human members of our family you have resources to mitigate to some degree the affects of the chemicals and the poisons that we must meet directly. I want my children to live, just as you want yours to live and grow from generation to generation. This can not and will not happen if things continue as they are.
I want my children to know the joy of being nourished in vibrant rich soil, clean sparkling water, and refreshing winds. Then you will truly see Beauty in all its fullness...rich color...soft healthy petals, firm sturdy stems and thriving root systems. And more... you will be able to experience this beauty in yourselves as well because what nourishes us, nourishes you. When we are thriving.. you will be thriving as well.
Dear Assunta.. you wanted to know some of my story, and now you do. Thank you for caring and for listening to me. The wisdom I offer is simply that what is happening to us...is also happening to you.. because dear one..we live and breathe and have our being in this one beautiful home...this sacred and endangered home...Mother Earth.
Dear Flower,
You are so right, this conversation went in a direction I would never have expected. Thank you for trusting me enough to say how you really feel. Your daily life experience and your words are a wake up call...and
I hope we will not only hear but listen and act to make the changes necessary. I love you and want to see you and your children and all children.. not only live..but THRIVE.
