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Sally's avatar

This is a timely piece, Leanne!

I was marveling on my walk today in seeing a few roses still in bloom. Despite the frosty nights! And most of the leaves have fallen, a few clusters hanging on.

I've never learned anything about flower arranging. I just have always had a small vase of cut flowers. And Goethe? "Flowers are the tears of God's laughter".

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Maya Rushing Walker's avatar

Thank you for this! I just found out less than a week ago that my mother took flower arranging lessons as a girl. She casually dropped this information (complete with what “school” it was, though I’ve now forgotten) on me in the middle of something mundane. And then you mentioned Natasja Sadi and her posture toward the harm done toward her ancestors in centuries past. It kind of blew my mind, because I’ve struggled to reckon with the harm that Japan has done the world, and I’ve also struggled to reckon with the trauma that my mother endured because of her own country. Sadi’s quote about telling the same story from different perspectives is amazing and her work is amazing.

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