Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Guillaume Apollinaire
Where flowers bloom so does hope.
Lady Bird Johnson
“Let us not go hurrying about and collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there for a knowledge of what is not to be arrived at, but let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive, budding patiently under the eye of Apollo, and taking hints from every noble insect that favors us with a visit.”
John Keats
(a beginning bud on a peach tree / Julie Cook / 2015)
Birthing
Budding
Blooming
Becoming
Unfolding
Unfurling
Unabated
Unapologetic
Magical
Mysterious
Miraculous
Mystical
Fragrant
Fantastic
Formed
Flowering
Perfect
Priceless
Pretty
Peachy
Delicate
Determined
Decadent
Defiant
Hopeful
Hardy
Handsome
Heady
Life
Living
Lovely
Luscious
Gift
Grace
Great
Grand
God