Pink Lupine and Bachelor’s Buttons

Anyone remember reading the book Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney?

It is a children’s book written in the early 1980s, and it was popular when my children were young. It was my older daughter’s favorite book for many a month.

As the story goes, Miss Rumphius is a woman who wants to do three things in her life – travel the world, live by the sea when she is older, and make the world a better place. She accomplishes her first two goals with no problem, but she is stumped when she wonders how to improve the world. Finally she thinks of a plan. She decides to scatter lupine seeds wherever she goes. And so she does!

Think how much we would all benefit if each of us had a plan to better the world, and we put our plan in action. Just like Miss Rumphius.

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Bo Mackison is a photographer and the owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC.  She will be at the Leeper Park Art Fair this weekend, June 18 and 19, in South Bend, Indiana. Booth #107.