Glynn reflects on his days laying concrete and its apparent permanence until the cracks show and then the flowers growing through them.
"Flowers are fragile, to be handled with tenderness and care. Unlike concrete you don’t have to be physically strong to hold a flower. Although, sometimes, the strength to be different is needed.
Flowers are visually and fragrantly beautiful. They are often riotous in their colour and gaiety. Concrete doesn’t do beautiful. It doesn’t do riots, colour, or gay either." Full text at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=447&id=823
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