On my way home from the grocery store yesterday, my Dad stopped the car and told me to look out my window. I proceeded to rip my eyes from my phone screen and see a field of bright blue wildflowers. They weren’t actually wildflowers though. After a quick debate of where they had come from, I saw just across the street the same flower in a flower bed beneath a tree. Just one set of flowers gave life to a whole field just 20 feet away. 

With the current world climate, there are two ways you can spin this scenario: one flower who stayed home allowed a whole field of flowers to live or one flower going out is what caused a whole field to be exposed. I think it’s fair to say that most of us will choose to think optimistically and choose the first option. But it is a sad reality that the latter one is just as plausible. 

After searching on the internet, Home Depot’s and Lowes’ online selection of flowers I have not been able to find this flower’s name, but I can conclude that it is some type of lavender hybrid. I then began researching the symbolism of lavender both as a plant and as a color; lavender as a flower has been known to symbolize caution. The color lavender itself is known to relate to the seventh chakra at the top of the head. In Ancient Greece, lavender was placed in temples and shrines to bring healing to their bodies through vibrations. I am not one to believe it random signs from God but this certainly got me thinking, as it is too strong of a coincidence.

I think the rebirth of the natural world around us is a sign–a sign that we as the predators have seriously fucked up. When the world slowly returns to its ‘normal’ we as a population needs to proceed with caution. The Earth is not ours to destroy and quite frankly I think this virus is God’s way of slowing us down.