Overnight Transformation

For two weeks, dazzling lemon-yellow blossoms beautified the cacti along my daily walk. Then one morning, almost all the flowers were orange. It was as if the color code on a paint-by-numbers painting had been changed overnight!

Without photos to prove that the flowers had indeed been yellow the day before, I would have thought some brain circuits had shorted out.

Another sight surprised me. A yellow flower and an orange flower were radiating their beauty side by side on the same cactus pad!

Are we capable of overnight transformation? And if so, are we capable of loving and letting the beauty of our “old selves” continue to express just as the cactus pad with both the yellow and orange flowers does?