Love and flowers
What Patricia Hampl's memoir taught me about grief and beauty
The first year I sent my mom flowers for her birthday it was April of 2012. I selected a beautiful bouquet of tulips I knew she would love. At the time, I had never sent her flowers before, and I probably would have counted that gift a waste of hard-earned money had I not fallen in love with flowers the year before. I used to wonder why people gave the…
