The Rhododendron Society

For years, periodically when I was channeling on Venice Beach at 3am for my clients, I would hear the term "Rhododendron Society" thrown in randomly to the dictations. I think my guides must have been planting the seeds in my head for east coast living. In retrospect, another indication that a move was imminent, was that for a year and a half my son became immersed in the painting and drawing of lighthouses.. Nearly every day on his easel he would depict a lighthouse, sometimes followed by a ship and a barn. When we moved to Cape Cod I thought back to that curious term that kept returning and my son's fascination with lighthouses. I thought, "Rhododendron Society" must be a reference to the reverence for nature here and the preservation of its beauty, or a reference to the blue blood country club seasonal residents.

Now I think perhaps it was the society of the flowers themselves, as conscious living organisms that the term applies to...The society of rhododendrons, alive, conscious on some levels, chatting among themselves. I like this interpretation the most.

Please, forgive me for repeating myself, don't mean to harp on these silly things, there are more sweeping and dramatic synchronistic events that have occurred, but I really think there's something to the little things...and the idea of plants talking amongst themselves brings a smile to my face. We sometimes take signs with a grain of salt, and in doing so do not fully benefit from their blessings. I should find assurance in fact that every time I have sat down to finish a draft of my book proposal over the four seasons, five crows and one hawk appear from out of nowhere to loudly caw and hop about one of the oak trees for one to three days. I was writing it off for a while, they must be there when I am not here writing some times, but I am often in the sun room...while I see larks, robin redbreasts, woodpeckers, starlings, sparrows, red cardinals, yellow finch-like birds, I only see that unusual bird family when I am working on my proposal. I'm back at it tomorrow to incorporate some memoir, fingers crossed that my auspicious fine feathered friends are back...

The veggies are growing, but the bunny gate needs to go up fast, as we have some hungry babies hopping around. And we need to employ use of some good organic fertilizer too...