This heavenly cloud of flowers is intoxicating with its sweet scent. This week, let yourself be enchanted.
Welcome to my garden. I’m Peggy Fiedler, and I’m a compassion advocate, cancer thriver and storyteller. Today I’d like to talk about lilacs.
Some of my happiest memories of flowers are of lilacs. As a child, my favorite delight of spring would be hopping onto the swing nestled in the back corner of our yard. I always made sure to face the lilac bushes. Each time the swing sailed up into the blue sky, I felt like I could soar, and when I took flight, I would be immersed in a heavenly cloud of lilacs.
Those exhilarating flights on spring days left an imprint of joyful memories that is as intoxicating as the sweet scent of the lilac. It felt like those days stretched into eternity, though most lilacs bloom for only two weeks.
Lilacs symbolize the first emotions of love. And perhaps that is why they are so powerful for me. The timeless lilac has been traditionally used to express love for someone. They remind us that love is everywhere around us. They may be telling us that now is the time to let new love into our lives.
Because of its seductive fragrance, this flower has long been associated with magic, especially among the Celts. This flower casts a spell on you.
It so alluring that it attracts butterflies of the most beautiful varieties, such as the pale swallowtail, California tortoiseshell and monarch, who are hungry for its nectar.
I believe the poets and painters were as enchanted with lilacs as I am. Walt Whitman referenced lilacs in his verse, and painters of light such as Claude Monet and Vincent Van Gogh found them irresistible. Lilacs seem to hold lightness and play in every cluster of their resplendent abundance.
THE LILAC AFFIRMATION
I soar into the all-enveloping love and magic around me. I am intoxicated.
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