Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Peonies are still beautiful after they bloom

The beauty of life is how within one single lifespan, we can encounter and come to know and understand many versions of ourselves. Essentially, we can experience many different lives within this one life.

Sometimes we can learn from bad decisions and hard times and be the better for it. Other times, we make what some might call "mistakes," and come out the other side intact, yet somehow manage to get ourselves into the same situation again. And then--again.

But another amazing thing about life is that as long as we're alive, we can keep trying to be the person we want to be. Experience is being able to look behind us and know and remember what took place, and wisdom is having the insight to do something different to affect a different outcome--the one that we were hoping for, or something less painful, at the least.

That's it for now. That's the post. Welcome back dear readers!


Peony, post-bloom