sometimes life is one big tangled up messy thing isn't it?! more often than not, (knot?!) when it's all untangled you see it for what it is - a thing of convoluted beauty. beauty being in the eye of the beholder of course, ' cause beauty can look like a mistake (brian eno would say "honour your error as a hidden intention"), a complete mess-up that teaches you something (ditto previous perspective from brian), a glorious success, or even just a messy thing of tangled-up beauty!
a few years ago i went to a greenhouse / gardening centre out in the country. all sorts of beautiful, glorious, pretty plants were there. it was overflowing with plants. i left with what i went for - wild grasses to plant in a bed made up of river pebbles. i also left with what i wanted as soon as i saw them.
this is how i am made: i plan to be unplanned. i prepare to be spontaneous. i organize to allow for disorganization.
i put some lilies in . . .
that manage to look lovely even when they fall to the pebbles below . . .
and all the while the grasses grow . . .
and the sun rises . . .
and the sun sets . . .
and the grasses grow . . .
but there's a usurper - a beautiful usurper with designs on the whole bed . . . a thing of tangled-up beauty . . . .
the spiderwort.
whose flowers make their world-dominating designs worthwhile - i'll give up order for beauty any day!
2 comments:
Hi Steven
the spiderwort is very pretty - it's all sort of knotted up too.
In the past I have disliked native grasses but now I realise that I had never really looked at them...Some can have beautiful tiny flowers and others magnificent seed heads like yours.
I adhere to the philosophy that life is chaos but in that chaos and unpredictability there is also in places order and beauty, structure and security...
Happy days
hi delwyn, i agree with your sense that life is chaos and that in that chaos there is order and beauty. i think there are confluences in the chaos that resolve as what we know as order. i think sometimes we will those confluences to form. other times i think we miss the order by becoming focussed on the surface of things which seems to have an order about it. still other times - a look across a room that resolves in a partnership for example - we see through the chaos to the deep-mapped order and hey!! there it is!! steven
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