Look at these beautiful berries. The rain is making them sparkle. They are like precious stones, a small cluster hanging like an earring, adorning the plant. They are some kind of celebration, an achievement, a kind of destiny almost.
They are the manifestation of fruition.
It’s easy to think of fruition as the stage in a plant’s life when it reaches an apex. They seem to represent a plan come good, a success, an achievement after a year of effort and growth.
This is the plant saying “I survived this year. More than that, I flourished”.
But can you look at this stage in a plant’s life without being aware of the fact that this isn’t an ending, it’s a season. It’s a flourishing which will take the plant on to a new level. It’s a phase where the plant holds her potential to expand beyond the immediate ground on which she is growing. These berries contain the possibility of new growth on new territory.
I love what the seasons of plant life teach us. They shift us beyond the simplistic, disconnected, cause and effect, goal oriented processes, procedures and concepts of industrialised living.
They show us instead that all of life is connected and cyclical.
They remind us that life is about more than survival. It’s about maturing and flourishing. It’s about manifesting our potential, expressing our uniqueness and sharing the fruits of our efforts.
They remind us that a healthy life is an open hearted and generous one, a creative path looping around, season by season, taking us to places we discover are both new and familiar.
Each season stirs memories of similar seasons gone by. Each season reminds us that life is cyclical, not a straight line from A to B, but a constant flow studded with sparkling moments.
Fruition is not a dying, it’s a call to celebrate, a time to enjoy and to share.
Heroes Not Zombies 
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