Flowering Fridays: Cheering On the Seedling

Seedling, The Cheerleader by Eran Finkle , published under Creative Commons license

I'm off tomorrow to Columbus, Ohio, where I will be celebrate the blooming of a seed that my dear friend, Dhanu, planted more than a decade ago.

It will be a great honor to attend the grand opening of her new holistic pediatric practice and yoga studio, WholeKids.

When I met her, she talked about wanting to practice medicine in a different way. And she tended to that seed of desire through many years of searching, planning and mustering up the tremendous courage it takes for any of us to go after our biggest dreams.  

What I find especially inspiring is that she tended to that seed even though she had nothing more to go on than the fact it was her dream and it burned brightly inside her. 

And now all these years later, her dream has taken root. 

I'm thrilled to be there as a cheerleader for this beautiful seed she is planting for herself and the community. And the truth is that I wouldn't miss the celebration of this significant milestone, both for the wonderful woman she is and also as a stand for anyone who has a dream and goes for it.

Tell me, what seeds of your biggest and boldest dreams will you plant and tend to until they take root?

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Flowering Fridays is a weekly look at flowers through the lens of what they might teach us about flowering fully in our life. Past editions are here.