Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see. (Jung)
I’ve been finding myself very impatient with myself lately. Spring is officially here and the weather is still cold in Toronto. In addition to that, although some shoots are out in the garden, nothing is in bloom. I can’t seem to wait for the flowers to bloom.
While I know that “patience is virtue” and it’s better to be patient than impatient, I can’t seem to bring myself to the possession of this virtue right now. This led me to looking at some of last year’s Spring and Summer garden photos that I had taken. The “impatiens” flowers with their bright colours caught my attention and the results of my impatience can be seen in this collage.
It is also said that “one thing leads to another.” I got to thinking about my impatience, and how, of all the images I would choose to make a collage, it would be the “impatiens” flower. I wondered if the name had anything to do with the human quality of impatience. This is what I discovered. “Dubbed the number one shade annual, impatiens take their scientific name from the Latin for “impatient”, which refers to the way that they shoot out their seed from their turgid seed pods. They are the largest member of the balsam family, and brighten the garden with their hot colors and quick spread. In fact, it’s not unnatural to see mass plantings of impatiens act as a sort of groundcover in a border garden.” The discovery of the Latin derivative of this “impatiens” flower – meaning impatience – led me to thinking that all this was synchronicity.
My impatience for spring blooms led me to looking at my garden photos, which then brought me to making the collage, and then discovering that “impatiens” meant impatience. “Synchronicity is the bridge between matter, mind and the eternal. Synchronistic events are those subjective experiences that make up life’s meaningful coincidences. Some seem more meaningful than others; some are “just so” stories.” I’ll let you be the judge here about my story.
Whatever you decide, enjoy the “impatiens.”
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