Prodigal - Exceedingly or recklessly wasteful, extremely generous, lavish, abundantly profuse.
Commonly called Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, it's all here, in this one plant: past, present, future, with all its contradictions and contrasts.
I've been eyeing this plant at the end of my porch now for several days, noting the purples and the oranges: opposites on the artist's color wheel, complimentary colors used near the focal point to grab the viewer's attention. It's as if this one plant insists on hyperbole - a veritable burlesque show.
Yet, we too hold all our yesterdays, our today, and tomorrows, in our flesh; the cells of our bodies remember and know. We too hold the tension of the purple and the orange.
Am I a flower?
or a berry?
"I am." That's what this plant speaks to me at this moment. "Don't define me too closely - I am. That's all. I simply am. I'm all of it in this one space, at this one moment. I am."
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