This morning I saw a lilac blossom, growing right there on a shrub in mid-October. And since seeing it I’ve been wondering about surprise, and timing, and how lilacs are lovely in the spring. This one is lovely, too, and out of place, and it’s hard to say if it strikes me as more lovely because it is rare and kind of goofy and I almost missed it, but now it has my attention more than most of the other lilacs in my life.
Without a doubt it is something I want to learn from today, in an absorb-into-your-soul-and-pour-out-into-your-life sort of way.
