A Beautiful Garden

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Tulips faithfully bloom each spring in our front yard garden. In this painting I’ve put them together with some insects and blue flowers within a Celtic knot. The flowers blooming in the spring speak of a hidden order of rhythm and pattern, without which, according to John O’Donohue, there could be no beauty. He wrote in Beauty, The Invisible Embrace: “When we expect and engage the Beautiful, a new fluency is set free within us and between us. The heart becomes rekindled, and our lives brighten with unexpected courage.”