The Florals
Four Seasons

Sometimes growth
does not begin from confidence
but from the choice to open your heart again
even while still afraid

The peach blossom does not wait for everything to be ready before it blooms
It blooms while the branch is still bare
while the air is still cold
while there is yet no sign
that a "new season" has truly arrived

In a season where many things are fading
the sunlight slowly softens
the leaves drift down from their branches
and the world grows quieter than before

Golden Chrysanthemum
chooses to bloom in the midst of it all

Sometimes life
brings us to a season of passage

Some things slowly fade
some feelings change
and some farewells
arrive without a sound

Yet within that change
we still learn to live with life

more peacefully
more gently
and more deeply than before