Tag Archives: flowers

Flower bouquet, II

Posted on June 8, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

Nothing knows the power of community Nothing knows the impermanence of community then a bouquet of flowers © Meisaan Chan

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Flower bouquet, I

Posted on June 7, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

At first, I am overwhelmed by beauty I am blinded slowly, though, my eyes adjust and I start to see the subtle illness the subtle death the subtle imperfection and all of this gives me pause for praise, comfort, and … Continue reading →

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Perspective

Posted on February 20, 2018 by Meisaan Chan

Throughout the day, I turned the bouquet of flowers on my desk this way and that, gazing at a different curve of petal, a different spike of leaf: So gently they remind me that beauty is not contained in a … Continue reading →

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Flower petals

Posted on July 5, 2017 by Meisaan Chan

I scatter them wherever you go and sometimes you tread without noticing, but if you look at the bottom of your feet, you will see that I scatter them wherever you go © Meisaan Chan

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Footprints, of a sort

Posted on October 6, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

…and in the strangest places, flowers grow a sign that the Lord has passed © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)  

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As goes the flower, so goes the heart

Posted on July 6, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

The peonies unfurl from their tight, beautiful fists: feathered color, revealing the tender center © Meisaan Chan  

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In remembrance

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

Memories unfold origami flowers always blooming © Meisaan Chan

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Beauty in the darkness

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Meisaan Chan

  I put the flowers by my bed and feel bad about turning off the light –  such a fleeting life, half spent in darkness? But even in the darkness, beauty has a voice     © Meisaan Chan     

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This is your time.

Posted on June 26, 2014 by Meisaan Chan

  This is your time. Hold nothing back. Flowers burst, unfolding live beyond themselves       © Meisaan Chan

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