Flowers

 The flowers in the garden are glorious. But don’t just admire them or let them only be the acknowledgement of love, accomplishment or death. There are many lessons in a garden of flowers. They call us to the humility of being on our knees with hands in the dirt. They are stories of nature’s ecologies and the survival by collaboration. They are the inspiration for poets and the wonder for children. They remind us of nature’s resilience in its variety and cycles--anticipation in winter, hope in spring, dazzle in summer and the inevitably of death in winter. How many metaphors have come from flowers? They are nature’s constant tinkering with geometry.