Greeted By Beauty
Maypops aren't always easy to find. You generally won't find them in controlled areas, in manicured gardens, or in landscaping, instead you most often find them twining through abandoned areas, up thorns and thistle, through fencerows and untended lots. But if you look hard enough, they will greet you with the most awe inspiring beauty.
"The art of life is more like navigation than warfare, for what is important is to understand the winds, the tides, the currents, the seasons, and the principles of growth and decay, so that one's actions may use them and not fight them."
The flowers of Maypop are simply art, and art of the highest order, for they are not solidified in a museum, they are not produced for the masses, and they have nothing to do with money. Maypop flowers are temporary, there to be seen for a short time by those who would seek them out. Art has unfortunately become largely artifice, an illusion of artificiality, like a picture of this beautiful flower or the words that describe it. Even music is rarely sung to each other, instead being recorded on a permanent medium. True art, like the Maypop is an impermanent experience that subtly draws us into that mysterious and ever-present metaphysical background of everything.
"Mystical knowledge can never be obtained just by observation, but only by full participation with one's whole being."
