Not living on the edge as in poverty, or as in all the violence that seems to envelope the world these days though there are obvious parallels to the life and future of this flower I captured living in a crack in the limestone rock of one of the karst islands of Phang Nga Bay.
This flower's prospects for growth were small. It's very existence is remarkable as some windblown seed just happened to land in this fissure rather than bouncing off the rock on either side. It managed to lay out a root system to support its growth and is far enough off the path of rainwater runoff so as not to have been washed away.
If the flower is really successful, it will end up splitting apart the fissure and tumbling into the the ocean with the surrounding rock. More likely, the constraints of its environment will stunt it's growth and limit it's possibilities.
Either way, like millions of people, it is living on the edge.
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