I have come a long way and I don't mean the boat ride. There was a time I cried in the rain - a young someone somewhere in time past - and I realized then firsthand that in the rain no one knows you are crying. But today... this - me - today... I am singing in the rain. I am singing! Yes, sink however low I may in the mud today, my spirit shall soar forevermore! I have friends... friends left and right - Ria and Ee Kiam, and newfound friend Vivian; I have them in the best place we can ever be - Nature. I have found freedom... freedom in her purest sense, you see. I can feel 'us'; I can feel 'we'; I can feel the wind, the sea, the lightning, the sky, the clouds and the rain; I can feel it All as One! I am no more me, you see; I am Free!
Yes, today, I can't be happier! Even if I should lose all knowledge, my heart will overflow with shouts of joy and I will shout them atop all the boulders I can find today! Yes, even if I shall not know or forget all the plants by their names, I will still celebrate with them in their uniqueness and wonderness of the unknownst. In this pure state, I and we are all free!!!... my inner self and my outer me! : )
But if you must know... here are some old plantpals I met today... : )
But if you must know... here are some old plantpals I met today... : )
[Above: Gymnanthera oblonga, a rare scrambling shrub]
[Above: close-up of G. oblonga]
[Above: close-up of G. oblonga]
[G. oblonga exhibits 2 leaf forms: oblong and lanceolate (above) ]
[Above: Fagraea auriculata, a rare epiphytic shrub growing on granite boulder (Vivian below the magnificent clump)]
[Above: Ficus deltoidea, a rare epiphytic shrub growing on granite boulder]Don't forget to live, will you? Every day beckons for your re-invention...
[Above: Cyrene Reef, 10 April 2008]
