The mercurial Midwest Spring has been hard on the beautiful flowers
that come up in the neighbors’ gardens.
They come into the beautiful, shapes colors and scents
and sometimes into extended days of rain and chill that blast and freeze them.
The lilac season came in the midst of rain and bone chilling temperatures.
In a week, they had bloomed and then were gone.
I picked a wild branch, that true to all wild things, did not open,
but found a blooming garden and stood there
(as long as my son let me)
breathing in the air of my childhood
being again as the little curious, exploring, growing child.
And with this brief meeting this season,
I ‘got’ how flowers are used as examples
to teaching the here and nowness of life:
so beautifully, completely HERE
in their short season and time on Earth.
Dorothy Perry is a Chicago portrait photographer
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