There are many purposes to have a garden. Much like you, we will pay our respects this weekend with #homegrownblooms of gratitude & appreciation to those who have passed, moreover, those that gave their lives in duty to our collective community.

Since a little gardener, I’ve been drawn to the graveyards as #restorativegardens. As a family, we’ve practiced a gravesite ritual of honoring lives, beyond time and place, expressing by way of flowers our offerings of appreciation & devotion. And we’ve just about always picked flowers and greens from our own gardens. It is unspoken: this is one of our reasons to have a garden. 

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On this Memorial Day, both wholly and holy as it is, we honor those that went – for us & before us.

I thank the good, green earth for flowers – for they grant us the transcendent ability to say “I love you” & “thank you” when words simply fall short.

In memory…

… and in appreciation.