like a breeze among flowers


pink lisanthus, originally uploaded by pilgrimgirl.

I’ve been thinking a lot about this quotation that ‘wilderness’ left in a comment on a blogpost recently:

“I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times, but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers. The wind passes, and the flowers are content.”
-Helen Keller

Photo is a close-up shot of pale pink lisanthus flowers in my garden

2 thoughts on “like a breeze among flowers”

  1. Vajra

    Another, sadder view:

    Had I not seen the Sun

    I could have borne the shade

    But light a newer wilderness

    My wilderness has made-
    ____emily dickinson

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