Beauty 06/23/2010
 
Once a year when I walk into Trader Joe's I find bunches of Peonies...the world's most beautiful flower....in my opinion.  Every year I buy two bunches, place them with love and joy in a vase and place them in my entry way.  the aroma fills my entire house, a fragrance of sweet sunshine and smiles.  They are so delicate and frilled with layer upon layer of beauty.  As you know, everything I know I've learned from nature (mostly) and here again the Peony reminds me to look deep for beauty, to celebrate the gifts of the season and to slow down enough to take in the beauty of this brief moment that comes every year.  I truly love these flowers.
I just remembered a sweet story about a gift of peonies...one year when I was taking classes for my MFT at SDSU one of my classmates had to take a trip to the midwest.  Upon return, he showed up at my door with a bundle of peonies in his arms.  He knew that I LOVED this flower and while in the midwest, a place where peonies grow like weeds, he picked up a bunch and carried them home to me on the plane.  I'm not sure a sweeter thing has been done for me.  Isn't it wonderful to pay attention to the things that those around us love and try to shower them with them.  It really is the simple things that matter most!