{"id":1079,"date":"2015-09-26T20:32:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T20:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geasouge.com\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2015-09-26T21:19:29","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T21:19:29","slug":"the-flowers-on-the-camino-make-me-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geasouge.com\/new\/the-flowers-on-the-camino-make-me-smile\/","title":{"rendered":"The Flowers on the Camino make me smile."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Poppies, the roses, the corn flowers and yellow fields; I was totally in love with all the flowers on the Camino. \u00a0I began my walk in the Spring and they were blooming everywhere \u263a. It was so joyful. The red poppies energized me to continue my path even when I was tired. I took tons of pictures of all the flowers, but those images don\u2019t reflect the real beauty and feel of the flowers.<\/p>\n<p>The fields of flowers made me sing and I often sat with the flowers and admired their beauty. \u00a0If you take a good look at the poppy flower you will notice that the center is sometimes purple and sometimes black, like a beautiful colored Mandala.<\/p>\n<p>The corn flowers also brought back sweet memories from my youth when I would lay in the grass, count the clouds, or pick flowers, make flower crowns while I wandered.<\/p>\n<p>One day on the Camino I found this amazing hidden spot overlooking the mountains where I found all these clovers. I sat there for hours and made a flower wreath of yellow clovers on my hat. That day my name changed from Miss Aruba to Miss Flower \u263a<\/p>\n<p>Ralph Waldo Emerson said: \u201cThe Earth laughs in flowers.\u201d \u00a0I laughed back and it inspired me to write this little poem:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geasouge.com\/new\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-05-02-14.19.03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1096 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/geasouge.com\/new\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-05-02-14.19.03-300x269.jpg\" alt=\"2015-05-02 14.19.03\" width=\"300\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geasouge.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-05-02-14.19.03-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/geasouge.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-05-02-14.19.03.jpg 2870w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Flowers help you smile<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Birds help you sing<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Mountains help you rise<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Trees help you grow<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Rivers help you flow and<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Clouds help you let go.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So the flowers made me love, smile, cry with joy, and feel peace. \u00a0I realized that people touch you in the same way. There was this Danish Pilgrim on my Camino that made me laugh so hard I started crying. And a Brazilian Pilgrim that was the most relaxed human being alive; with him I felt at peace. A Californian Pilgrim was the sweetest flower around, she made me feel loved. An Australian could really empower and energize me. And this French couple humbled me. Another wise pilgrim gave me clarity. \u00a0For me, all these people had the same impact as the flowers on my path. They gave me love, joy, encouragement and peace.<\/p>\n<p>Who are the flowers in your life? How do they make you feel? Are they aware they are a flower in your life? Let them know you might also be a flower in their life.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the video of some of my flower images. I would love your feedback.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1100\" height=\"619\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2lOQ_-5Rjto?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Poppies, the roses, the corn flowers and yellow fields; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camino-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geasouge.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geasouge.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geasouge.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geasouge.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geasouge.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/geasouge.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1099,"href":"https:\/\/geasouge.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/1099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geasouge.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geasouge.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geasouge.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}