One gain while walking in the garden is to watch and experience new beginnings in the plants. The vibrant colours and exuberance of the beginnings are evident in the colourful leaves and bring hope.
The phots below give a mixed message of the beginning, their life span and the last phase of life. The flowers fade and the petals fall off into the soil that nourished their life so far.
This tree with the drying branches below makes an announcement of its impending transition to its closure of life!
The biography of plants, flowers and a tree from their beginning to the end can often be seen in every garden.
What brought cheer and consolation during the walk in the garden was a sense of gratefulness for the gift of life! The trees, plants, and flowers bring their gift to the garden. The roots of the trees and plants receive their nourishment from the soil and bring the abundance of life through the growing process.
I wondered whether people on earth receive that form of nourishment to live and bloom. The human society is the nourishing medium for sustaining life on earth.
Has the society become exploitative with some people thriving at the expense of others!
The head of a charitable organisation mentioned to me that the tendency in the recent years is a traction towards affluent life style which alters the attitude of giving and sharing!
The giving and caring attitude is the soul of a society. How much we are neighbourly in our thought and deed is what matters during our life span on the earth.
The news of war and war mongering is in the air in the recent months! It is a sign of societal distress! It is a behaviour towards possessing more and giving less!
The plants, trees, and flowers left with me a message that the vocation of living to give to make others experience wellness in their lives!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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