milkweed seed

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Milkweed seeds -- so delicate, so insistent without insisting, so generous and ephemeral and endless, so uncompromising and selfless, so light-as-a-feather on the wind, so vastly powerful without lifting a finger ....

Words and thoughts and beliefs and adventures come and go in season, touching the cheek and then passing on, seeking some rich earth in which to extend their reach, yet uncomplaining on rocky soil.
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