The birth of flowers!

Flowers can grow on branches of the plant or can sprout directly from the soil. The first photo is of the flowers on a branch of a shrub and the second ones of, Gerbera Daisy flowers, sprouting directly from the soil.  There are orchids which grow on the surface of the stem of a tree. Our garden has many flowers of these organs.

Yesterday, as I walked pass these flowers in our courtyard, I was captivated by a sense of awe and wonder !

Nature is a hallowed place where similarities and contrasts are manifest. 

Anna had planted similar looking seeds of ladies finger and two of them grew up to give red coloured ladies finger vegetables, while the others gave the normal looking green coloured ones. They were similar in shape, size and taste.

Those who study the science of Botany might find the logic and pattern behind all of these. Even when all facts are known to us, the interplay of all factors to bring forth the variety we see around us would still surprise us. 

Yesterday a journal reporter came to ask me some questions about children who have attention deficit. He looked surprised when I told him that there is no one single defining cause for attention deficit, but it is the result of a causal pathway generated by the interplay of many factors, some identifiable and some not !

Wha fascinates me is the beyondness of human knowledge and also the limitations!

I hope we would not get lost in our enquiry for facts and information and miss the sense of wonder and surprise which is all around us ! 

It is this sense of wonder which revives within us a 'child like' attitude to life. We receive what is given to us with sense of gratitude and delight! When Anna gave a pencil to a three years old child which had different coloured led on both sides, the child looked at it in utter amazement! What a revealing look of wonder it was!

It is when one we allow to be surprised, we nurture the sense of awe and wonder ! The poets, artists, musicians, instrumentalists,  sculptors, designers, architects, etc. carry an immense measure of this insight within them. Rest of us can also cultivate this, which can bring wellness and gladness to our interior lives!  

M.C.Mathew (text and photo)