This photo may elicit emotions across the spectrum from beauty to repulsion.  Why?  Many of us recognize the putrid, rancid death as aspects reflected in our own lives...where we have held on too long in a relationship, job, or self abuse and watched that part of us die off in an abnormal, unhealthy manner. It is never too late to choose again, in each moment, and claim your integrity - the state of being whole or undivided.

Once all the flashy, outer expression has been displayed, a subtler, more refined beauty can unfold. The same is true of us.  After the need to be seen, heard, or understood, an inner beauty of raw reality is exposed...and we finally blossom.