Carol Wiebe

Think of the delicate instruments in your life: your lungs, your little fingers, an earlobe ~ not to mention the that wisp of  hair behind it. So delicate, and yet indispensable, vital to your life and happiness. How is it that a blade of grass, a butterfly, seem so fragile and yet have an amazing amount of strength. Let us hope this beautiful, delicate blue planet of ours has the same strength. Or did I misspeak? Perhaps it is not ours, and it is we who are too “delicate.” T

A Chinese orchid is wonderfully delicate, but when it dies and dries, it is so fragile that you hesitate to touch it. Dried Orchid I don’t think its beauty has faded in any way ~ the paper-like form now has a different kind of beauty. The lovely pleats and folds in the flower now remind me of origami. I watched a movie called Between the Folds last night, a documentary about origami. I found it fascinating, inspiring and full of intriguing surprises, such as the fact that air