Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a wildflower?
The start of your new life so unencumbered, so free. To be relayed to destinations unknown by gusts of wind, that have first pulled you from your mother plant?
Winds that carry you along, asking for your trust as its transports you to the place where you will lay your first foundation,
The winds stop…. and your new struggles for live begin.
Did you find yourself perched high on a mountain top where you know your challenges will be many? Where your existence depends on finding a crack, an opening, your home to lay root?
Where the elements of nature leave you exposed and threatened with each passing day. Sun rays that beat down giving and taking life away. Where spring rains and summer storms threatened to pull you from your perch, but also where your beauty is by far the greatest of all, shared only by those that are blessed with wings, that are fortunate to fly amongst you
Did you find yourself tossed along a highway strewn with broken stones, pebbles and runabout weeds? Where storms and rains can’t harm you, but where you stand alone. and must lean learn to live with the loneliness of barren highways. Hoping that hasty cars and walk about wild life, take a moment in their passing to pay you heed, to reveal in your wild beauty and in your strength to stand alone
Or did you find yourself in the fields and countryside that your ancestors before you have spoken about, as you waited for your moment to live life. Where you are surrounded by others the same and some different, where rooting, soil, sun and rain, all make life as a wild flower seem easy in comparison. Where people travel for miles to find you, to take in all your beauty.
Yet it is here amongst so many that you struggle for uniqueness and wither away young because no challenges befell you. Nothing could make you as courageous as the roadside warrior or as strong as the mountain top beauty.
Have you ever wondered about the life of a wildflower?
Thank you for reading Live Love Laugh
Catherine Deslippe
Thank you to photographer Lorraine Begin for providing photos
