Heroes Not Zombies

I stepped outside yesterday and saw this lying on the path. I stopped, crouched down, and took this photo.

Look closely. Isn’t it beautiful? I love the arrangement of the five leaves and they look truly bejewelled by the water droplets. Then, look even more closely and each of those droplets appears like one of those beautiful paperweights which were popular once upon a time (haven’t seen any in a shop for quite a while but maybe that’s just because I haven’t been looking for them)

Every one of those tiny domes of water looks like a little lens, reflecting its surroundings whilst magnifying what lies beneath it. Each one is magnificently separate, the surface tension of the water molecules forming a perfect boundary. Yet none of those drops would have just landed here as if from nowhere. The whole surface of the leaf would be covered with water molecules which gathered together to form these distinct droplets.

Beauty, wonder, awe, l’émerveillement du quotidien……what an incredible world we live in.