Two days ago while sitting in my back garden (ahem) working, I reached over and idly tugged at a weed that had grown up out of a crack in the wall. I didn't manage to pull its roots out, but my tugging left the thing standing straight out at an almost-right angle, like a sore thumb.
This afternoon I found that the weed had righted itself, or half of itself, positioning its buds back where they needed to be to get their necessary bask of sunlight.
If there's a deeper truth or wisdom in this, I don't pretend to know what it is. I just thought it was interesting. The heavenly glow around the open bloom, by the way, is a quirk of my camera phone, not any kind of blessing.
It has registered your violence, and will strangle the cats one day.
But really, it's all to do with these growth hormones called auxins which cause the dark side of the plant to grow more quickly than the light side, thereby bending it towards the light.
And that's how life keeps going.
Posted by: Pete | May 02, 2009 at 07:07 PM
Maybe your camera phone can photograph heavenly glows and blessings that mere mortal eyes can't see. Might be interesting to point it at people...
Posted by: aidan | May 05, 2009 at 04:27 PM