The Garden’s Gift

A single pink-purple orchid rises from long grass in a garden, shown in selective colour against a black-and-white background.
Monasterevin, 26 June 2026

I did not have to climb a mountain to find this.

It was waiting in the grass outside my own front door.

We spend so much time looking for extraordinary places that we can miss the quiet miracles growing where we already live.

Sometimes the first step of pilgrimage is simply to notice.

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