These are dated May 2007.

There was a time before I graduated when I used to conveniently visit the botanical garden on campus.  I’d go there at least once every two weeks.  During finals, I would go there in between exams instead of study.

The campus botanical garden is small, and I know the staff who work there really did try to keep it up.  At first glance, you would not be impressed.  But for me, I have seen the beautiful transitions and life cycle of this sacred oasis from one season to the next my last two years of college.  I sought the missed details that stood to live their course even when everything around were dying.  This was a metaphor of life.  I have learned a lot about life because I visited this place, year in, year out.  We have decades to live one life, but they only have a season.  But even for just a season, the flowers would bloom their brightest, the leaves would flourish to be their greenest.  They have no one to impress.  They are beautiful by nature.

Sometimes, I think we overlook what mother nature can teach us.

I am planning on revisiting soon.  In the next weeks, I’m going to revive some archives from my botanical garden visits.  They remind me that I’ve come a long, long way.