The amount of rainfall in California this year has been phenomenal.  Even here in the desert where I live the rocky mountainsides are covered with a soft green layer and just about every inch of open space is blanketed with blooming flowers.  Every sand dune and vacant lot flaunts a wild mixture of brittle brush, purple verbena, brown-eyed primrose, Arizona Lupine and others I can’t name.  So, with flowers on my mind, a recent article in Psychology Today caught my eye.  It seems that current research has identified, primarily in children, two defining characteristics.  That as a dandelion—or that as an orchid.  Is it possible that understanding how those two flower traits play can play out in a person’s life could help us better understand ourselves as well as those around us? [Read more…]