I really loved this piece, Jen. What it made me think of is how we tend to focus on everything negative, or everything we perceive that is going wrong in our lives, and we fail to see so many times how beauty or goodness came actually come about from the ugly or the painful. I have been experiencing this myself, and by the way, I have some pretty amazing sunflowers growing in my back garden as well. It's crazy how we don't actually plant these, but they come up, as if embodying hope, faith, in their spectacular bright yellowness, their optimism, their grace and happiness. They look like what happiness must look like if you could just envision it pure and by itself. And so they're like a juxtaposition of everything horrible that is going on all around us, all around the world. There is so much pain that so many people are experiencing in this one moment I'm writing this to you, and at the same time.
I really loved this piece, Jen. What it made me think of is how we tend to focus on everything negative, or everything we perceive that is going wrong in our lives, and we fail to see so many times how beauty or goodness came actually come about from the ugly or the painful. I have been experiencing this myself, and by the way, I have some pretty amazing sunflowers growing in my back garden as well. It's crazy how we don't actually plant these, but they come up, as if embodying hope, faith, in their spectacular bright yellowness, their optimism, their grace and happiness. They look like what happiness must look like if you could just envision it pure and by itself. And so they're like a juxtaposition of everything horrible that is going on all around us, all around the world. There is so much pain that so many people are experiencing in this one moment I'm writing this to you, and at the same time.
Those sunflowers. From the shit.
Yes,they do look like pure happiness, don't they—more than any other flower I think.