blossom

is that many, many other home-grownAfrican institutions will blossom,and these institutions will all come together

or in Malaysia, the mangrove treesthat I watched blossom nightlynot with flowers

create this startling moment when people would see this treeblossom in all these different colorsand bear all of these different fruit.

With her sins absolved by the tribute of a god,and a blossom on the iron tree,Shi Lin had freed his mother,

a seven-and-a-half-foot diameter,600-pound glass depiction of a lotus blossom.In Buddhism, the lotus is a symbol for transcendence