Looking like an orchid

While I was taking this photo, having twisted myself outside the steps that took to the beach, a man walked by and informed my son that the flower is called North Stradbroke Island Orchid by the locals. I still do not know the real name of it. It is beautiful though. It can be found everywhere on the island.

It is very hard to live here and now, in the moment. In my mind I keep going back to the meditation course missing the predictability and stillness. And I keep going back to the island... thinking of the sun and the sea and the white sand. Maybe I should start planning to live on a deserted island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean for a while. I could combine the two then.

Copyright Kirsi Reinikka 2012