It’s odd how the brain makes leaps when you need it to.
Fellow blogger Gallivanta at Silkannthreades, sent me this link (Community Spirit, at The Mundanity of it All) about a community rallying around to help an elderly woman, recently widowed, prepare her house for sale. It’s a story about people engaged in everyday goodness, and I’m sure many (hopefully most) of us could tell a similar story.
Because despite the very real, very scary things that are happening in our world, everyday life for many of us is at least sprinkled with kindness. With a desire for positive, even if fleeting, connections with others.
And oddly, that’s where the blue thistle comes in. All those individual flowers separated from the others on the surface, are of course joined at the centre, and wouldn’t survive without that connection. Nor would the plant as a whole survive without the individual flowers reaching outwards.
Maybe that is something we need to remember. That no matter how much we grow out and in our own direction, we all spring from the same heart. It’s both what feeds us, and makes us meaningful.
Written for Sally D’s Mobile Photography Challenge at Lens and Pens by Sally
Perfect metaphor, Su. I agree that most of us are kind, at least in the individual. In groups, on FB, etc., maybe not quite as much. But we all bound together, kind or not, and attempting to be kind and caring and civil can go a long, long way to making everyone’s lives much better.
janet
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Su, your image speaks volumes about your text. The editing also supports the point of your story. Well done. Happy Photo Challenge.
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Is that thistle a prickly one? It is so lovely to look at and it does convey your thoughts so well.
Leslie
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A great analogy. I’m so grateful the world is still full of small kindnesses to one another – the way it should be.
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I posted a dandelion that looks a lot like your thistle. Magical capture
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Lovely, lovely post.
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Beautiful macro of this thistle, and thoughts to think on.
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That’s beautiful Su and I love the tie-in. perfect. 🙂
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Thank you Amanda 🙂
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Beautiful thought, beautiful image.
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Thank you Amy. This is a theme I seem to riff on frequently. Something about maintaining my sanity in a mad world I think. 🙂
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