the fine things

 P r e t t y    i n    W h i t e ! 

Daniel said, “Look at this!  This is rare”.  My sister’s little cactus sprouted such a big flower! Daniel took some snaps of it. I gathered my sister would love to see how her cactus is doing.   I don’t think I have been doing a good job tending it…practically left it to survive on its own !! 

There it is … close up

I found out that this particular species is  referred to as night blooming cactus, among other names.   It is well known for its blossoms that bloom just one night a year.   When morning comes, that’s it! the show is over!  What a strange thing!  We were lucky to have to have witnessed it still in bloom the next morning!  (Please send me a message if  my details are inaccurate)

To think the bloom is just for one night, this cactus must be special.   Nature certainly holds some strange secrets. 

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O u r   l i t t l e    l i n g u  is t ! 

I know kids sometimes make their cute, silly sentences and words.  Sometimes, Ian makes up sentences and words because he’s  having fun with it.  I do find them fun and funny too.  So, we often laugh.  The more I (laugh) find them funny, the more he tries to make up more funny words.

Anyway, what I would like to scribble here is what Ian had said last week which I find real cute.  Here’s the story.  Daniel told him that his bicycle tyres needed  ‘air’ and that they will have to bring it  to the gas station after dinner.  Well, being a kid, he got all curious and rather “impatient”.  As I mentioned in my previous posts,  NOW seems to be his favorite word of late. 

What happened was –  he wanted to go to the gas station that instant.  The NOW thing.  Didn’t make a move to avoid being caught in a heavy traffic jam but no use telling Ian this.  I tried, any…way, to make him understand.  I said, “Ian, it’s heavy, heavy traffic jam out there.  We’ll go after dinner”.  What I got back was a fat NO and lots of whining.   Feeling a little bit irritated with all the pleas etc., I uttered this exact sentence, “Ian, there’s no point  going out right now.  It’s super jam out there”.  Guess what what his reply was.  He replied, “but I want the point to go there now”.  It was so funny that I just couldn’t refrain myself from laughing.  Ian started laughing too when he saw me laughing so hard!    

D o   Y o u   S e e    It   T o o? 

“Mom! Look!, Ian screamed.  When I looked at what he was pointing, I saw grass, leaves. and shadows  Then, he shouted again, ” There’s a heart on the ground.!”.  A little bit surprised, I asked, “Where?”.  To which  he replied, “ Look at shadow of the sun!”.  

I wouldn’t have noticed “the heart on the ground”  if he didn’t specifically pointed it out to me.  For a moment there, this actually got me thinking about life and people in general.  That sometimes, we don’t always see.  That we don’t always see “things”, ”‘problems” or “beauty” around us.  That we don’t always see the way others see.  That we don’t always realize what we have until we have lost it.   We may pass someone by everyday and not notice them, but once they are gone, only then we realize.