BLOOM anyway...

Despite my blog'ability, I am actually a crummy 'story teller'. I don't have a penchant for sharing details in a way others can consume casually. I am liquid liberal literary lips when I have the right listeners, but....well....that does not happen often enough.

So,... I just give easily digestible basics

Thus, I am going to skip the long story, because I am L.A.Z.Y.

Here is what happened. My neighbor poisoned my sunflower. Notice the extremely withered stem and leaves compared to the others around it.

Like I said, its a LONG story, I am not patient enough to type.

But today's little bit of sunshine is THIS:

BLOOM ANYWAY....

Yes. Even if the odds are against you, the stars are not aligned in your favor, doesn't feel like anyone is in your corner, you don't feel like its fair, or even, or equal, or nice even.

I knew what had happened to this sunflower. I was sure of it. However, I just walked by it every time I could, smoothed the leaves, and whispered...

BLOOM ANYWAY

"Come on, don't let them beat you. You just do it anyway baby, BLOOM....BLOOM....BLOOM

"Show us what you've got honey...." "B.L.O.O.M.!!!!!!!"

And it DID!!!!!!! A top the brown and withered stalk this pretty bright yellow flower just shined!


Marc and I were astounded by this old growth forest. Especially, this one particular tree (photo below) . It had been burned 80 years before. Each year after that it continued to build bark all around the burned center and created a strong bark and 'shell' to thrive within.

We do that don't we? I do. It works. The sweet part is that no matter what you have been given as raw material, you can still BLOOM.

BLOOM ANYWAY, come 'poison', 'fire' or 'some stupid disease called Lupus'

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