Thank you Alphonso!

Your story brings to the fore that attention, presence, and appreciation impacts not just ourselves, but those we interact with as well!

Great stuff!

-----Original Message-----
From: pele@stagen.simplelists.com <pele@stagen.simplelists.com>
Sent: Monday, October 8, 2018 9:14 AM
To: pele@stagen.simplelists.com
Subject: Orchids this morning

Good Monday.

This one isn't the e-journal posting I had expected would be my first. It makes me nervous to send it — fast heartbeat and all —but I’ll do it anyway.

I had 3 white orchids in a small glass of water in my kitchen, they were “stolen” by me from a wedding at the Ritz 3-4 weeks ago when it was past midnight and everyone was standing up from their tables, leaving behind a sea of orchids alongside the crumpled napkins, the tall glasses and the empty plates from three hour long dinner.When I looked closer at the center of my then empty table; the orchids weren’t planted but cut off and merely stuck onto those green sponges hidden inside porcelaine pots. Thinking that if I left them at the table they’d be binned that night and die, I rescued three of them on my Tuxedo’s front pocket, and walked out of the ballroom.

By last week they were all wilted, almost dead, and for some reason I refused to through them away. Every morning before walking out of my flat, I looked at them up-close checking to see if they were fully gone, and I'd touch two of the orchids, the ones facing me, to thank them for existing in my kitchen.

This Monday morning as I left home, I noticed that those two orchids were fully back to live, they look like the first day at that weeding. I found it to be the strangest thing. Beautiful as well. Attention and presence is all I can imagine happened.

Wishing you all a good week.

Yours,

Alfonso M.