Thistle Thicket
Even the spiny thistle has its own character and beauty, and Nature’s wise hand plays its magic on both the buds and blossoms of that we customarily think of as a weed. Maybe our emphasis on labeling things is just a superficial convenience that really fragments our minds and closes off our perception. We dismiss things too easily, because we have labeled them by our own accord, i.e. by our verbal traditions, either personal or acquired. Whether we refer to something with a nickname we have coined or by the vernacular of our time and place, we may limit its impact on our lives by relegating it to a negative mindset and meaning. What do you think?
Image and Text c Lynda Lehmann.
I totally agree with your take on this! And what a beautiful image you have captured here!
The other day I was thinking how beautiful the dandelions were as I was walking along the sidewalk. They lined the border of the sidewalk and grass perfectly, in bright yellow rows, one after the other. I smiled as it brought me back to the time when I was a child and would pick these “flowers” because of their beauty. I smiled because I didn’t label them as “weeds” and it felt like I had re-discovered them all over again–just as I did as a child and as my children did when they were young, too.
Thank you for the reminder of the labels we often place on things and people, which cloud our perceptions and inhibit our awakening to life’s beauty.
hello,
the words that we use can either be the rocket fuel for expansion or the brakes to obliviousness.
the image is great–delicate
thanks
derick