The Beauty In Life Lies In Finding Your People

---

This old gal…

Lived in a farmhouse…the previous residents…planted a bed of lily of the valley…and a hollyhock plant…just outside…the kitchen window…the blanket of little lilies…were adorable…fragrant…delightful…the hollyhock…a conundrum…big…tall…proud…bloomed lovely pink flowers…

But the plant flopped here…and there…so out of control…compared to the bed of lilies…farm girl me…could never quite grasp…an appreciate for Ms. Holly Hocks…until…a stroll with those ladies of mine…near the University where DC gal used to work…and what to my wondering eyes should appear…but a garden of sorts…bold…beautiful…stunning…abundantly filled…with hollyhocks…

Multitudes of regal tallness…colors blending…octopus arm branches flipping flopping…reaching out…something in the old mind clicked…this is it…this is what…kitchen window Holly needed all those years…she needed…friends…hollyhock friends…friends…to flop with…meld into…

And so it is in life…we…are not an island…or one lone hollyhock beneath the kitchen window…the beauty in life…lies…in finding our people…people…who love…support…accept…let their colors shine…while accentuating those of yours…people…who when life brings them together…make the world a better place…by creating a beautiful…breathtaking…exquisite…masterpiece…called…love…
​
And those daughters of mine…agree…