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On the edge of a hospital car park
I picked up a dying butterfly off the pavement today
and left it in a flower bed
knowing it couldn't understand or appreciate
the reasons why
© Indie Adams 2020
and left it in a flower bed
knowing it couldn't understand or appreciate
the reasons why
© Indie Adams 2020
Published 20th Mar 2020
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20th Mar 2020 4:11am
20th Mar 2020 4:39am
Dear M,
Perhaps the butterfly didn’t understand your action but for me, that act of kindness and compassion speaks volumes to your character. Makes me wish and hope I exhibit actions with that much grace. Lovely write H🌷
Perhaps the butterfly didn’t understand your action but for me, that act of kindness and compassion speaks volumes to your character. Makes me wish and hope I exhibit actions with that much grace. Lovely write H🌷
20th Mar 2020 9:57am
20th Mar 2020 11:20am
What a lovely gesture. To just "give" is one of the most difficult things a human can do; it's contrary to the human nature of wanting a return for the effort. Yet our spiritual nature is so much deeper and stronger, and fuels us so much more when we demonstrate it through kind actions.
13th Apr 2020 1:48pm
That was very beautiful, and thoughtful of you. I did the same thing actually after finding a perfectly intact Tiger Swallowtail outside of a restaurant in town where I live. It's good to know that there are others who take the same care when it comes to life.
15th May 2020 00:40am
A kind gesture with nature, spiritual in sense that represents the good that exists in the human soul.
Truly outstanding.
Truly outstanding.
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16th May 2020 00:08am
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