THE VERY PHILOSOPHICAL CATERPILLAR
“ I know you will never be a beautiful butterfly, but there is nothing wrong with being a beautiful moth. I never once saw a butterfly fly at night, but you … you will fly under the stars at night and under the clear blue skies by day. You will have the best of both worlds. Shine like the sunshine little caterpillar. Feast on my Tamarisk tree and on the yellowing leaves of my spent Summer roses and be the best moth you can be!” - AP
Such is the good advice I gave to this beautiful caterpillar … ah, but he is much wiser than me! He understands his place in the world. There is nothing I can further teach him other than confirm his suspicions that I am a silly creature … ; 0)) He told me that the female moth of his species does not fly at all and they only eat during this stage of their development. Their time is short and their purpose is to procreate. I discovered that they are considered a pest to cultivated gardens so I am very happy that they found their way to my wildlife garden in their droves. Here they are safe and free to do their own thing and ensure the survival of their species. It is moments such as this when I feel most at one with the world …
Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUPHmKPWFmM
EVERGLOW - COLDPLAY
I hope you will always bring the sunshine with you
the warmth of your smile that reaches
the dusty forgotten corners of my tangled heart
where melancholy tends to linger;
erasing all that life and love has taught me
please mute the inner voice that always preaches
I hope you will perchance to dream a little
and meet me somewhere in the middle
surround me with pink fallen roses
their petals clinging tenderly to my tears
and let the big band play a tune upon my soul
pull my heartstrings taut as those upon an Irish fiddle
I hope that I will always find you there
standing close beside me come rain or shine
let our shadows be as one
gathering in the golden hour
fill us up with so much light
that the darkness will envy that you are mine
I hope that I will be forever
the part of you that you sought so long
and you will be the missing part
that once I only imagined existed
in the deepest and most sacred places
those spaces between my evening song
I hope that we will always be
united in every sense of the word
that the darkness will be overcome
that part of me that remains even now
when I have so much light surrounding me
when my soul is free and no longer
a caged and frightened bird
I hope that we will last the distance
the road less travelled can be hard and cold
but with you beside me and my hand in yours
we can conquer any mountain we desire to climb
feel safe in the knowledge that if we want to
we can spin the sunshine of our former broken lives
into the purest gold.
- AP - Copyright © remains with and is the intellectual property of the author
Copyright © protected image please do not reproduce without permission
THE VERY PHILOSOPHICAL CATERPILLAR
“ I know you will never be a beautiful butterfly, but there is nothing wrong with being a beautiful moth. I never once saw a butterfly fly at night, but you … you will fly under the stars at night and under the clear blue skies by day. You will have the best of both worlds. Shine like the sunshine little caterpillar. Feast on my Tamarisk tree and on the yellowing leaves of my spent Summer roses and be the best moth you can be!” - AP
Such is the good advice I gave to this beautiful caterpillar … ah, but he is much wiser than me! He understands his place in the world. There is nothing I can further teach him other than confirm his suspicions that I am a silly creature … ; 0)) He told me that the female moth of his species does not fly at all and they only eat during this stage of their development. Their time is short and their purpose is to procreate. I discovered that they are considered a pest to cultivated gardens so I am very happy that they found their way to my wildlife garden in their droves. Here they are safe and free to do their own thing and ensure the survival of their species. It is moments such as this when I feel most at one with the world …
Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUPHmKPWFmM
EVERGLOW - COLDPLAY
I hope you will always bring the sunshine with you
the warmth of your smile that reaches
the dusty forgotten corners of my tangled heart
where melancholy tends to linger;
erasing all that life and love has taught me
please mute the inner voice that always preaches
I hope you will perchance to dream a little
and meet me somewhere in the middle
surround me with pink fallen roses
their petals clinging tenderly to my tears
and let the big band play a tune upon my soul
pull my heartstrings taut as those upon an Irish fiddle
I hope that I will always find you there
standing close beside me come rain or shine
let our shadows be as one
gathering in the golden hour
fill us up with so much light
that the darkness will envy that you are mine
I hope that I will be forever
the part of you that you sought so long
and you will be the missing part
that once I only imagined existed
in the deepest and most sacred places
those spaces between my evening song
I hope that we will always be
united in every sense of the word
that the darkness will be overcome
that part of me that remains even now
when I have so much light surrounding me
when my soul is free and no longer
a caged and frightened bird
I hope that we will last the distance
the road less travelled can be hard and cold
but with you beside me and my hand in yours
we can conquer any mountain we desire to climb
feel safe in the knowledge that if we want to
we can spin the sunshine of our former broken lives
into the purest gold.
- AP - Copyright © remains with and is the intellectual property of the author
Copyright © protected image please do not reproduce without permission