Sunday, June 04, 2006

Gwendolyn the gardener

Working on my flower garden. The last one I will ever have in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Planting more sunflowers than I ever have ( one, of course, for Myfanwy). For the longest time, I refused to plant them, though I love them so. I hated watching them go. But I learned to appreciate the beauty and enjoy it for however long.

I recognize now that life is a series of hellos and goodbyes, birth and death, times of suffucating darkness and times of brilliant light. One can't exist without the other and task of life is to open oneself to each in equal measure.

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