Verbal Description
A landscape image
The image captures a portion of a bush whose tiny flowers reveal varying degrees of fullness. In the background, clusters of small pink circles, barely visible unopened blossoms, seem immobilized by a shroud of dark shadows.
From the left side of the image, a pink bouquet springs forward on green leafy stems. It holds four or five clusters of pink flowers bunched together and saturated with light. Three other smaller clusters reach out from this illuminated bunch each containing forty or fifty small pink buds resting on a blanket of slim, pointed leaves. They form a triangular frame on the left side of the image, two of the clusters below the bouquet, one above.
The presence of light on the left seems to lift the flowers, a palpable contrast to the dim shadows that prevail on the right and behind. The pink flowers burst open revealing pale yellow centers in the midst of many shades of pink. Countless fuzzy stamens rising from the blossom, blurred glitter against the bright light and the shadows. A small bee can be seen wandering through the open blossoms, kissing the light.
No longer seeing things
As either or,
Possibilities are pollinated
With revelations of choice.
The essence of life’s sweetness
Lies not in what we do
Or even what is done to us.
The essence lies within
A silent place beyond doing and done
Where the playground for being
And becoming merge into one.
In this place,
Compassion holds court
And forgiveness rules.
As you remember
You chose this.
You chose all of this.
And you are freed
To choose again
And again
Knowing
Each choice
Moves us forward.
Indeed, each choice
Brings us closer
To ourselves.
