What qualities do you absorb from a wildflower meadow?

 

Last week, I learned that many Apache mothers traditionally bathed their babies in water saturated by wildflowers. What a wonderful practice! I imagine this as an effective way for the growing child to absorb the qualities of the natural world and then to radiate those qualities to everyone he or she meets. Similarly, whenever I hike through a wildflower meadow, I feel I am bathing myself in a lake of spirituality. From the flowers, I absorb a sense that my core self is attractive, radiant, fragrant, lively, and tenacious. What qualities do you absorb from wildflowers?

Photo: Lupine flowers and the peaks of the Tatoosh Range; Mount Rainier National Park, WA; July 29, 2013

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