I love flowers and throughout the winter in
particular usually have at least one if not more vases especially in the
kitchen and living room. Not that I don’t also have the green plants living in
the North corner of the living room in what was originally the plant “graveyard”
until I discovered that with the mild light and warmth of the radiator they
tended to flourish. Still call it the graveyard although it’s usually pretty
lush looking.
As my kitchen is gray, black and white I
use colored place mats, photos and some sort of decoration, usually floral, on
the table as well.
Last week’s flowers although gorgeous when
they were first put in the vase had all, but two, hung their heads and looked
like they needed to be shipped out to the compost pile. That is until M got
a hold of them. The transformation was stunning.
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If by such a simple thing as cutting the
stems, flowers can be transformed from ugly to beautiful, think of ways that we
can also as humans change sad to happy, gray to light, problem to solution. I
am sure that it’s not easy for all of us, but perhaps if we look at things,
people and the world in general in another way or light, we can also achieve
the just as stunning transformations.
Smile at someone today: not only will it
change your face, it may just change their day.
Someone’s bag falls apart – offer them
another.
A car cuts you off – wave them through (if
nothing else they’ll wonder about your sanity).
Make that phone call that you have been
putting off: someone may need the contact.
Just got a horrid letter – feel sorry for
the person who wrote it – can’t touch me.
Raining? Just the sun watering the plants.
Heard some gossip: don’t pass it on, but if
you know the person that it was about try perhaps gently (a key word here) to
find out if they are hurting, what the truth might be, then return that to the
gossiper.
Go on, I challenge you: take the ugly that
you see and try and turn it into beauty.
