Flora and fauna are not that different. Both need water and oxygen, both start with a tiny “seed” and grow into their final form and both have an end (on this plane anyway). Like any organic being, you too have a life cycle. You have roots in what you have learned and in your mentors and role models both living and historical. You have branches in your work and experience, buds in your ideas and goals and fruits in your triumphs.
Contemplate how you are growing. Has your growth been stunted by adversity? Can you shift your branches to a place where there is light and your roots to where there is nourishment? Think about the cactus that lives where nothing else can and blooms most beautifully when given the opportunity. Imagine your garden flowing to fruition and your cactus flower bursting to beautiful bounty.
D.N. Howard 