On New Year's Eve, one of my cacti gave me an unusual gift: a flower. It lasted for just one night, so as to say goodbye to 2011 and welcome the new. I admire its fragile, delicate nature, springing from rocks, a hard soil, and very little water... and I think that we humans are sometimes a bit like that. We can bloom where we are planted, no matter how adverse our surroundings may be.
In Poland we grow this species of cacti in pots and we call them "The Queen of One Night". My grandma was a cacti freak and she would stay up all night waiting for her cactus to bloom. They are really beautiful. And I strongly agree with you on the parallels between this species and us - humans...
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