Celebrate Living

    Sunflowers don't grow backward. I've never seen the head of a flower buried in the earth with its roots turned up facing the sun. And you know what... I don't believe that I ever will. Plants can't grow with their heads in the soil. Roots don't thrive in the open air they need to seep deep into the ground, where they can absorb nutrients to blossom into gorgeous flowers. I'm sure that it must be hard to work down there for them. Pressing through mud and sliding under rocks, easing past weeds and insects while simultaneously maintaining their grip on the soil as they plunge deeper and deeper.     Yet, all that we see is the end result of the seed that was planted. And what follows after its arrival into the ground such as the rain, then scorching heat followed by wind and cold, ice and snow and then more rain. Until one fateful spring day, the flower unfolds and people take notice of the impact it makes in the world. Suddenly, there was beauty an...