“Sometimes we just have to cut off the dead branches in our life. Sometimes that's the only way we can keep the tree alive. It's hard and it hurts, but it's what's best.”

― Nicole Williams, Lost & Found

I do a little dance around this hydrangea in my garden, as I feared I had lost it to the unusual bitter cold weather of last year’s winter. Come spring I had to prune several dead branches out, leaving the middle a bit bare and the bush a bit lopsided.

But the bush is flourishing, and once again I learn something about myself thorough my garden. I see where there are dead and unwanted branches in my life too, and I set out to remove them. Along the way I prune some things back, allowing for new growth in new directions. It is a bit uncomfortable, but who knows, I just might bloom.