Imagine yourself as a flower in springtime, your petals drawn in tightly around your face. If you can see out at all, it’s only a speck of light. You can’t appreciate much of what goes on around you. Yet once you feel the warmth of the sun, things change. You begin to soften. Your petals loosen and begin to stretch outward, exposing your face, and removing your delicate blinders. You see more and more. Your world quite literally expands. Possibilities unfold. Some flowers bloom just once. Other flowers, like day lilies, close up every evening and bloom again every time they see the sun.
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