Years ago, I lost a dragonfly pin that had been a favorite piece of jewelry. It was not valuable, just a piece of costume jewelry, but one I wore all the time and treasured. I am not a big jewelry person, but when I find something I like I wear it all the time. Somehow I did not get the clasp tight one day and apparently it fell off. I was pretty disappointed at the time, and since then I have never found one as nice or as meaningful. So when my husband gave me the chair with the dragonfly perched on the edge, I felt as if the dragonfly had somehow made his way back to me.
Today my husband took a photo with his phone when he went into a coffee shop to wait for his Vespa to be repaired. He knew I would love this dragonfly, and I did. I am pretty certain that this is a decorative mirror from the Art Nouveau period. I intend to go over this week and see it in person. (My husband’s jean is not part of the design on the right.)
So what do we know about dragonflies?
~ They are fantastic flyers.
~ They are old and adaptive insects.
~ They are associated with color and magic and remind us that we are light and can reflect light in powerful ways if we choose.
~ As creatures of the wind, they represent change.
~ As creatures of the water, they reflect the dreams of mind and thought.
~ They carry messages that deal with deeper thought, and they ask that we pay attention to our deeper thoughts and desires.
So when you see a dragonfly, a lost pin on the ground or a creature of magic in the air or water, consider yourself lucky.
You’ll like this then. This is one of the smaller one. I lose my nerve when the big 4 inch bombers want to land on me. There’s a creek back in trees beyond the pool so we have dragonflies everywhere. My pool is just a part of their territory:
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How lucky you are to have dragonflies. I think I would wear a metal hat and suit up for a sit by your pool.
I love that top illustration! One of my favorite things about summer are the dragon flies (and probably damsel flies) that dance around in my garden. I saw my first butterfly (a swallow tail) this week too.
I know I probably have seen a damsel fly, but I can’t think right off-hand what it looks like. I will have to google it.
I stopped and admired a dragonfly yesterday. I tried to point it out to someone, husband? whoever, and they waved it off and went on with what they thought was important.
I just admired the dragonfly. And I have a hummingbird feeder next to my window-chair so I can see them really close. What amazing little beings they are!
I love the hummingbirds too, but when my older cat caught two of them, the cats were sentenced to a life indoors. They have adapted beautifully, and it is nice to know I am preserving some wildlife.
Your description of dragonflies is what I would like to be but I lost the instructions. I know they are around here somewhere, maybe under a stack of paper.
It is always that stack of papers that looms and conquers. I am learning to walk past it and head outdoors to live for awhile each day.
What a wonderful list of things about dragonflies! My daughter, when she was about 8, rescued a dragonfly from Vanye my cat (rest his soul). Its wing was damaged, so she carefully placed it into a large crevice in a wall in the garden, on a bed of soft grass, and brought it little insects to eat, at a slight risk to herself, as dragonflies have quite nippy mouthparts. It survived for a few days, but must have known it was being cared for after the trauma of being toyed with by a cruel cat.
Cats can be cruel. That is why mine live indoors now. We have too few birds as well. Between man and the cats, etc, we might not have anything left someday to assuage our souls.