This linear row of hedge pants at the one border of our garden come to life during the post monsoon season with brilliant flowers that last for days.
They are small but stand out because of their bright colours.
What is at the edge is often considered to be an 'outlier', not so important.
But there might be some distinct features about the outlier too.
For six months or so these plants are with our flowers. During the rest of the year, they are at their best.
What strikes me about this plant is that one can multiply them by planting its stem. It sprouts quickly and flowers thereafter. When broken from its original stem it does not die devoid of nutrition. But it comes to life, finding its nutrition from the earth when planted in a new place.
It does not suffer when displaced from its source. When displaced it gives new life.
I met with a family yesterday who had to vacate their home due to flooding and during their stay in a shelter camp for a week, they seemed to find some friends whose kindness moved them. They came empty handed to the shelter home and were provided by couple of other families with all what they needed during that grieving time. Two families who came to visit them too lavishly showed acts of kindness.
Listening to this gave me a sense of the 'fruit' of displacement- new friendships and orbit of relationships.
We suffer from disappointments and difficulties. I was trapped in one such experience yesterday. I struggled a lot with a fear within me over the sudden change in the circumstances related to a particular offer of help I had made. As I kept pondering over this, the renewed life this hedge plants find when broken and placed in the soil, came to me as a comfort. It overcomes the stress of change from its usual place and brings new life by sprouting from the soil.
A new circumstance is for growth. A new challenge is for revival of hope and trust in the resources within. It might be the beginning of something better than the former!
M.C.Mathew (text and photo)
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