Shortly, after my mother and I started sheltering in place due to Covid 19 I started to post photos of flowers I had taken to my Facebook page. My goal was/is to post a photo of a flower a day in the hope to add a gentle soft spot in the midst of the sadness, confusion, followed by many other thoughts and feelings, my brother's illness, then the need for Black Lives Matter, and the Presidential Election… It seemed that whenever I opened my phone, news article, computer, TV, the news was is heavy and concerning and rarely a place of softness.
When I say softness I do not mean to take away from what is going on or to turn away from what might need to be done or heard. Not at all. I post(ed) flowers to give a moment of pause to see, feel, experience something comforting, of hope and goodness.
As of today, there are nearly a hundred photos of various flowers on my Facebook page, near 100 days of trying to simply add a gentle soft spot to focus on or to take a breath of air to carry on.
Here are a few of the photos I have posted:
From a bouquet in France.
I took this photo last summer in a shop in Cassis.
A photo from Cassis.
Flowers from home last summer.
This year's Easter bouquet.
At a friend's house in Provence.
I will post more of my daily flower photos here to my blog for the same reason I have been posting them to my Facebook.
Please keep my brother in your deepest prayers today as he is having tests to see if the tumors are shrinking with the chemo that he has endured.
Flowers, a soft gentle place to rest my heart, eyes, thoughts, prayers, hope, yearnings…
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