aka R’acquel

We had a dingle to our car today. We were on our way to a Christmas party, stopped off at the supermarket to buy some fruit to eat. My husband was returning to the car, opens the back right door to put the groceries in - my eyes saw my husband opening the door, so i glanced back to the front. Quite a few seconds later, i hear this long crunching sound! I turn back to see that this old woman has just driven the corner of her car into our door!

Here’s a rough illustration to show you the situation;

She was trying to get into the single carspace to the side of our car. The car bumped my husband’s right thigh, and then the corner of her car got stabbed by the open door. Crrrrrunch. Holly fucking batshit batman.

I’m just glad my husband’s ok - he has a small bruise on his knee, the leg is feeling a little sore but no damage to the integrals.

The exchange of details wasn’t nasty, though the old woman was not acknowledging responsibility for the damage and was very minimising with her use of language about the situation. Said that my husband opened the door too fast. My husband’s at fault for opening to door too suddenly in a car park? Even when the car bumped his body first?

I can understand how you can be at fault for doing that on a busy highway but i can’t understand how this can be the case when you’re returning to your car in a car park. I believe the door opened ‘too fast’ for her coz she didn’t bloody see my husband there at all. Yeah, “whatever” - you just move forward. 

Despite knowning that this incident was going to make us very late to the party, it actually felt like a really good omen! It’s weird, something like this would be considered negative/sadenning but as it happened, i had this strange sudden feeling that it was a ’sign’, a good one, as though someone watching over us was saying,

“Hey - this is a sign of really good luck here!” ..beyond the fact that my husband scathed through without serious injury. I wasn’t feeling the slightest bit put down by it - even though it was a little upsetting, it seemed like one of those meant-to-be things which somehow - was in our favour!

So we had to drive back home to notify the insurance agency. As we drove into the driveway, i saw this flash of red. OMG - the mysterious plant that has been sprouting out of my pots on the verandah has made a beautiful splash of red! I didn’t know what it could possibly be!

It wasn’t until after the party that i could check the flower out because i had forgotten all about it. My husband was downstairs, fixing part of the the door that was sticking out (well after taking it into the smash-repair place where they took photos for an assessment). I was downstairs with him, my eyes got caught by that flash of red again.

“Oh my God! I forgot about the flower! I’m gonna have to check what it is!”

My husband comes up with me, coz he’s just as curious. I peer over and i can’t believe it, it’s a snap dragon!

The joy i felt, my heart leaping at the colour - a plant i had sowed without believing that it could ever reach flowering. It’s the second snap dragon this year. It lifted my husband’s spirits too. More buds have formed, there will be more arriving soon! Yay

I’ve had a recurring dream of seeing plants sprouting out of my front yard, surprising me like this. The first dream was spinach, and the second was that my front yard was sprouting armaryllis flowers everywhere. I couldn’t work out what the dream meant - beyond omens of unexpected surprises just begining to leap out all over the place unepectedly.

What occurred to me today was that the phenomena of my “good omen” dream is currently happening in my front yard just like this. I planted succulents everywhere, so there’s now all these gorgeous “fire” flowers popping out, exactly like the dream;

This is one of my most favourite flowers of all and this type of succulent was one of the very first plants that triggered my love-affair for gardening to become a serious (and yet somewhat comfortably casual) hobby a few years ago Maybe it’s because i’m a fire spirit - the colour always knocks me over with deep pleasure & comfort.

I had noticed this other succulent flowering at my parents place, so i wondered over to them - and to my surprise, they had begun to flower here too.

I don’t think much of this flower, but it did make a very interesting photo to look at and i especially love the geometry which lives in it too.

So yeah - the day had it’s pitfall but i am wondering if something really good is lurking around the corner for us. It feels like there could be something on the way, but even if there isn’t - there’s been enough joy to enjoy today ;)