When you look for small, unnoticed things, you realize the world is full of them .All around you there is living and breathing, birthing and dying going on, with or without your noticing it, with or without your caring about it. The life cycle of a wildflower may seem inconsequential to you – but so too may your life cycle seem inconsequential to the wildflower.
I stepped out onto my front steps to check on plants and discovered this newly emerged giant leopard moth on the walkway. Its wings were still tightly curled, wet and small, and it crawled to the relative safety of my steps while they unfurled like soft sails climbing to the top of a mast. All afternoon and evening it stayed and dried its wings.
It will live long enough to lay eggs and ensure the next generation – maybe a week at best?
Does it make a difference that we noticed?
I choose to believe that it does.
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