life and death

I don't have the best green thumb. In fact, my family always wonder how I manage to kill even cactus. I don't know how I do it, but. . . My daughter gave me this bonsai a year or two ago and I've managed to keep it alive. But that little pot, there on the left, yeah, I bought that succulent this spring and well, um, I don't think it's coming back.

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I just loved the way the little bonsai looked against the screen in the window and the dappled sunlight. :0)

Indian Pipe

Indian Pipe is one of those flowers that I longed to see in nature. Last year I finally saw some, but it was past it's prime. This year, I have been looking frequently in the same location and happened to spot it coming up. When it first emerges it's just a little white arch in the ground, then the next day the bloom was up a little more and each day the stem and bloom got higher. It has some droplets on it as it's emerging.  To me, it's an amazing flower, one without color, and one that only grows where decaying leaves, trees and fungus are.  It finds life in death.

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More information on Indian Pipe, aka Ghost plant, aka Corpse Plant can be found here.

PostSecret

Every Sunday I anxiously read PostSecret.  They update the blog on Sundays and the post is only there for a week and then it's changed.  SO I really should have told you about this sooner but it has weighed on my mind all week and I just have to tell you how deeply I was touched by one postcard.

If you're unfamiliar with the site, people send in a secret on a postcard anonymously. Often there are cards that touch me, make me laugh, gasp, or feel less alone. This past Sunday one made me cry. I couldn’t even read it aloud to Dennis for my tears and I am tearing up as I write this now. Here’s what the card said:

I’m not going to try to cope when

my mom has lost her battle with cancer.

I’m going to kill myself.

I hope there is an afterlife.

Go to PostSecret to see the actual card. And maybe take a moment to pray, appeal to your higher power, send this person good vibes or whatever you believe. Let’s change her heart.

Cancer Sucks!