The strangest thought came to me on this morning...
...as thoughts so often do.
It's actually part of the first line of the beautiful song I am sharing with you and I wonder what it would be like to start the day in the way a flower might. Swaying in a gentle breeze, face to the sun, welcoming the bees, sparkling with dew. Getting on about the job of smelling good and being beautiful.
Yeah...today, let's be flowers.
As we hang in this liminal space between the seasons, the discoveries for today have me thinking of Spring.
This particular song, Come Back As a Flower, was released in 1979 on the album "Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants". The lovely vocals are by Syreeta, who lived much of her life in Detroit and was married to Stevie Wonder for a short time in the early 70s. After they divorced, Syreeta and Stevie continued to collaborate on music together for many years.
Winter Poem - Nikki Giovanni
once a snowflake fell
on my brow and i loved
it so much and i kissed
it and it was happy and called its cousins
and brothers and a web
of snow engulfed me then
i reached to love them all
and i squeezed them and they became
a spring rain and i stood perfectly
still and was a flower
(Source: black nature; Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
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During my internet travels for the video above, I discovered a "new to me" musical artist who did a cover of this song with a beautifully creative video to go with it! I have linked it below.
I love discovering new artists and that will be part of the fun here...
Exploring. It. All.
“The journey of identity is a never-ending one, but all these feelings of displacement — being a first-gen kid & feeling really scrambled in my identity — was a really big blockage of mine… It feels like now that I’ve done some self-work towards that, ‘It Was a Home’ is much more confident. ”