Friday, November 23, 2007
Everyone loves flowers
Everybody loves flowers and flowers are everywhere for everyone to enjoy. In the fields or on the sides of streets in Cagayan de Oro or Dumaguete or anywhere in the Philippines for that matter, you could find tiny flowers, shy, peeking from muddy soil. They can be very unobtrusive, calling no attention to themselves. But, on closer inspection, they mesmerize and hold the mind captive with their colors and intricate design. One is amazed at their delicate structure and their strength. No wonder flowers are compared to Solomon in all his glory. He cannot hold a candle to them and they exist for purposes which might escape us altogether.
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Some flowers shelter in the shade of a tall tree. They hang from branches and trunks seemingly gaining sustenance not from soil but from the air. These plants are prized for their color and delicateness as well as for their variety. People have domesticated them and have made it their life-long avocation to culture and nurture them and to create new varieties. I am no expert in flowers. I am like a passing admirer who enjoys beauty but who possesses no desire to own them or to retain them or keep them in vases on tables. I like flowers where they are, on the earth or in the air permeating nature with their essence and beauty.
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I think of their existence and I remember my own. How very similar we are, our lives beyond our control. Any moment a pick or a shovel or even a bulldozer can come and rip their roots from the soil much like an asteroid can come smashing its way into where I am or, a typhoon wreaking havoc or a volcano exploding its bowels in spectacles of ash or lava flows. The flower and I are not so different. I know nothing of my own existence or of a higher purpose. I seek not to order the world or to dominate it, and I suspect I am here on this earth simply to enjoy it.
Our favorites are: Ching's World, Green Tea, Dumaguete, Cebu City, Cagayan de Oro City, Papoy, Moira Trinity Cagayan de Oro, Dumaguete, Cebu are all in the Philippines in the world of Ching.
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Some flowers shelter in the shade of a tall tree. They hang from branches and trunks seemingly gaining sustenance not from soil but from the air. These plants are prized for their color and delicateness as well as for their variety. People have domesticated them and have made it their life-long avocation to culture and nurture them and to create new varieties. I am no expert in flowers. I am like a passing admirer who enjoys beauty but who possesses no desire to own them or to retain them or keep them in vases on tables. I like flowers where they are, on the earth or in the air permeating nature with their essence and beauty.
ice-age, ice-cream, ice-skating, identity-crisis, identity-theft, illness, impotence, incense, incontinence, india, indiana, indianapolis, infants , infertility, information-technology , intel-amd, intent, intention, interfaith , internal-medicine, internal-revenue, international-law, international-trade, internet-marketing, internet-phone, internet-radio, internet, invasion, invasive-surgery , invention, ion, islam, islamic-extremism,
I think of their existence and I remember my own. How very similar we are, our lives beyond our control. Any moment a pick or a shovel or even a bulldozer can come and rip their roots from the soil much like an asteroid can come smashing its way into where I am or, a typhoon wreaking havoc or a volcano exploding its bowels in spectacles of ash or lava flows. The flower and I are not so different. I know nothing of my own existence or of a higher purpose. I seek not to order the world or to dominate it, and I suspect I am here on this earth simply to enjoy it.
Our favorites are: Ching's World, Green Tea, Dumaguete, Cebu City, Cagayan de Oro City, Papoy, Moira Trinity Cagayan de Oro, Dumaguete, Cebu are all in the Philippines in the world of Ching.
Labels: air plants, fields, solomon, wild flowers
