Hope for the Flowers

A love story for times such as these

A few months ago, 93-year-old Trina Paulis shared in an interview that as a child, when she learned someone had died, she drew three illustrations on a piece of paper of a caterpillar, a cocoon, and a butterfly.

She said it was her way of making sense of death while holding on to a “daring hope” that there was something beyond this life. This practice of…