abundance Archives - saxtonstudio blog https://blog.saxtonstudio.com/tag/abundance/ art & design / words & pictures / creativity & inspiration / life & the universe Fri, 25 Oct 2013 23:07:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/blog.saxtonstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/sid.icon_.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 abundance Archives - saxtonstudio blog https://blog.saxtonstudio.com/tag/abundance/ 32 32 113749947 The Humble Pumpkin https://blog.saxtonstudio.com/the-humble-pumpkin/ https://blog.saxtonstudio.com/the-humble-pumpkin/#respond Fri, 25 Oct 2013 23:07:11 +0000 http://saxtonstudio.wordpress.com/?p=15843 My daughter went to a local farm and came home with a little tiny pumpkin. (This is what happens when one is spending one’s own hard-earned money ~ the great big pumpkin is no longer so important!) Of course it’s terribly cute, the way small things are. And it brought...

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My daughter went to a local farm and came home with a little tiny pumpkin. (This is what happens when one is spending one’s own hard-earned money ~ the great big pumpkin is no longer so important!) Of course it’s terribly cute, the way small things are. And it brought to mind a vision of the sprawling pumpkin patch… nature’s bounty, plump and happy, and I thought  – not for the first time but maybe the thousandth, which (to me) makes it even more intriguing – what a wonder it is, this mystery called life. What a wonder! ~ this indestructible power of creativity. Born each day in all things, all creatures, each and every one of us; every season, ever-present, renewing, recycling, rebellious against all odds.

And there it is, this little pumpkin – one of millions of simple, round, mostly orange and sometimes amusing members of the fruit family (a berry, in fact – who knew?!), triggering thoughts of grandeur! Silly ~ maybe so, but I allow my mind its folly, and see them rambling lazily in autumn fields, these brightly colored smile-bringers, sculptures in waiting,  deceptive hosts to uncountable swarms of life-giving seeds and hundreds of lip-smacking pies, and for a moment my thoughts free-fall in wonder at this stuff of life. Because it is, really, pretty darn amazing.
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