Showing posts with label Hakudo Nakayama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hakudo Nakayama. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Plum Blossoms

It's winter time in Iowa once again.  If you know Iowa, you know blistering wind-chills, two-feet-deep snow, and scraping the windshield every morning before work.
This time of year also reminds me of a quote by Hakudo Nakayama:
Plum blossoms open because of the frost and snow.
 
 This is a beautiful metaphor that sometimes the hardest and roughest times bring out the best of us.  I can think of many times in my own life that this has proved to be very true.  How about you?