Stupid Wise Beautiful and Amazing

This is another flower for you to contemplate on, and Louie too! I found the flower on my daily walk with my service dog, "Sir Louie Nelson." I'd never heard of Cavachon dogs before, but they are a mixture of a Cavalier King Charles (designed to be lap dogs for English Royalty) and a Bichon Frise (a furry teddy-bear non-shedding dog). So, anyway, for the last 4 years I have been the loving (and loved) "commoner" responsible for Sir Louies daily walks in the wooded trails in the 55 plus community where I live. Walks in nature heal. The sounds of wind in trees heal. The changing of seasons heal. The feel of the breeze on your face heals. To heal, get out in nature! Louie got me out twice a day, every day over the last 4 years, and while Louie sniffed, and smelled things (in dimensions I will never truly understand) ... I saw, with my photographers eyes, the amazing beauty that I cherished in moments (and in dimensions Louie will never truly understand)...

  Beauty. Appreciation of Beauty.  And gratitude for each moment, these are things that heal, and that I want to teach and share. For Example. You walk by flowers every day, You seldom really look at them, or see their beauty. Please take a minute to really look at my photograph above.  Do you see the gorgeous 5 winged purple star in that flower? Or how mystically awesome the white light is, that flows from its center? Or how delicate, and blue veined, and delicate paper thin that flower is? Or how quickly it too shall pass, and that flower will wither and fall, and winter; only to come again bright and new again in the Spring? Take time to see the beauty that surrounds us everywhere. A reflection of the sacred. So much beauty surrounds us everywhere, yet few of us see it. I am lucky to see it, and want to pass that gift on to you. When I was 16 and I saw an old man smile. It gave me hope. Now I am 74, and I am that old man. I want you to know why I smile. So you can smil...