4.20.20 // What Do You See?

Some see the flowers, some see the dirt.
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Both beautiful.
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At first glance, the flower is stunning. She reaches her long stems towards the sun and dances as the wild wind courses through her leaves playfully. A performance for the tall mountains that look down with admiration at each pastel petal, reminiscent of the countless sunsets the mountains have watched grace their high ridgelines.
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Unlike the mountains, the flowers won't live a long life of sunrises or moon-sets, but they will fill a summer with joy. The flowers are stunning because they serve as a reminder that even in the temporary, we should dance, bask, and spread levity.
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At first glance, the dirt is perhaps uninspiring to most. Light, dusty dirt covering the ground and catching on the perfect pastel petals. But the dirt is so much more. Not only is it part of the mountains that sip the thin air, but it is apart of the veins of the earth, a path.
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A path for freedom. Lending itself to aimless road surfs, goal destinations, hidden pull-offs for lovers to snag kisses, and freedom to both find oneself and also to lose oneself.
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While the flowers are the easy choice of what to see, sometimes we have to look beyond to see the full picture, the full perspective. The dirt is incredibly beautiful with promises of exploration and growth even from which the flower grows.