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I was really pleased to find this quote to go with the Marigold, the October Birth Month flower.
I love roses and lotus flowers but a vase of marigolds can give me every bit as much enjoyment as any of the more exotic flowers.
Marigolds are easy to grow, seed themselves profusely and provide a welcome splash of colour in the flower beds - though October is far too late for them here in the UK! - so I think they are every bit as much to be cherished as any flower!
I find myself increasingly appreciating the amazing 'everyday', the awesome 'ordinary' - in preference to the 'extraordinary'.
Especially on the internet, it's so easy to find ourselves being fed an over-rich diet of 'amazing'. On practically any webpage I open, even the weather forecast, there will be links to all sorts of astonishing things. Superlatives abound - the 50 fattest countries, the world's most enormous castles, 30 happiest cities, 50 weird and wonderful animal facts . . .
After a while, I can feel my senses glazing over at all this amazing-ness!
Better to ignore all these enticing headings than reach a point where 'amazing' ceases to amaze and, just like painkillers, we adapt and need ever higher levels of sensationalism to make any impression at all!
Give me a clump of self-seeded Marigolds any day, glowing against the green of the leaves and the blue of the nearby Mountain Cornflowers in the corner of my little back garden! In spite of my neglect, they'll keep flowering and creating a cheering picture.
That's what I call truly amazing!
The garden of my childhood home was full of marigolds. My mother did most of the gardening but without the luxury of purchases from garden centres. Even if they had existed at that time, we couldn't have afforded it! It was a pretty little garden and I used to love to pick a posy that consisted of one each of all the flowers. Maybe that's where I learnt to appreciate the beautiful things that cost next to nothing?
So yes -
It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a
MARIGOLD
What matters is that you are flowering.
And I think it's time to
#enjoythelittlethings
and
#CelebrateTheEveryday
(I think I'd quite like to be a Marigold!)
4 comments:
Love this quote and had not heard it before-thanks. Pinned as requested!
Hi Clare - thank you for visiting my blog and for your comment. I was very pleased to come across that quote too as it's very much my philosophy :)
I had a quick look at your blog and wanted to stay longer for a proper browse - but work to get on with at the moment. I couldn't see any way to follow so that I could see your updates in my side bar though. But I'll be back . . .
Fantastic post, Judy. My garden has definitely taught me to believe in ordinary magic. Thanks for the reminder.
Glad you enjoyed my post, Victoria, and thank you for your comments. It's a post from a year ago and this year my marigolds are brightening up my little garden wonderfully, even in October, when most of the other flowers have finished blooming!
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