When Everything’s Comin’ Up Roses & Encouragement When It’s Not

When Everything’s Comin’ Up Roses offers peaceful glimpses of blooms in a variety of lovely interiors. I’m also including encouragement quotes. Like white roses, words of comfort can transform a mood or shift the eyes of the soul to higher ground. Even everlasting roses have their charms. I hope the inspiration will fragrant your journey and remind you the time is right to bloom.

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Everything’s Comin’ Up Roses

I never tire of them, these white roses.

They look great absolutely everywhere…

And they can elevate the everyday like nobody’s business.

Do you like roses in saturated, juicy, vibrant colors or the more faded hues?

And do you grow them?

I cannot imagine having the sort of access so many of you have from your gardens!

I say I’m all about the white variety, but then I see these…

or these old fashioned beauties…

and I think there is nothing so lovely as a blushing rose.

When everything’s NOT coming up roses…

do you find extra reserves of hope in your roots?

Do you turn toward the light?

Because there are such important lessons in nature for us to apply when wilting and despair are near.

I don’t know much of anything at all…

but I know that when I turn toward love (in spite of my circumstances, courage, or credentials),

and when I dare to put on a new mind…

miracles and blessings I never saw coming tend to blossom.

Maybe you already know how long roses have been here. While they aren’t the most ancient flower, fossils found beneath Colorado’s Florissant Fossil Beds offer proof roses have been here nearly 40 million years.

Can you fathom 40 MILLION YEARS?

No wonder they feel so timeless and otherworldly.

They bloom such a short time, yes?

But even after their blooming, they continue to be purposeful.

After the rose blooms, it produces a fruit called a rose hip. Familiar with rose hip?

They are dear to me. Rose hips are rich in vitamin C and used to make herbal teas, jams, jellies, and healing potions for skin.

I know these things because I have lived for decades with the skin condition rosacea.

My rosacea is not a pretty pink flush across the cheeks.

Mine is an unfortunate lumpy, bumpy mask which appears and feels awful.

But rosehip oil has antioxidant properties and provides a most calming effect when the rosacea flares.

So you see, even when the beauty of the rose appears to end, it has an enduring healing mission. It soothes and balances as it heals wounds that come.

Such patterns of beauty, life, death and resurrection seen in nature mean more to me as I age.

While our culture is divided in important ways along lines of religion, morality, and politics, I often wonder why we cannot unite on such encouraging patterns so obvious in nature.

I wonder why we cannot agree on the wonder of the cosmos and the Eden right under our noses.

Because even the small and simple things here on the planet are awe-inspiring.

It is surely why we need the poet. Here’s a gem called BLOSSOM from MARY OLIVER:

“In April the ponds open like black blossoms, the moon swims in every one;

there’s fire everywhere: frogs shouting their desire, their satisfaction.

What we know: that time chops at us all like an iron hoe, that death is a state of paralysis.

What we long for: joy before death, nights in the swale – everything else can wait

but not this thrust from the root of the body.

What we know: we are more than blood – we are more than our hunger

and yet we belong to the moon

and when the ponds open, when the burning begins

the most thoughtful among us dreams of hurrying down into the black petals,

into the fire,

into the night where time lies shattered into the body of another.”

Hello Lovely, Everlasting White Roses

When fresh florals or white roses aren’t available, it’s an opportunity to enjoy the everlasting variety.

If you haven’t shopped for an arrangement lately, you may be surprised by the possibilities.

Silk, dried, and other everlasting artificial roses often look just fine in a clear glass vase or container.

My favorite way to display them is in aged urns or terracotta pots. Antique pots from France can be pricey, so consider thrifting ordinary urns and painting/distressing them to your liking.

Super Easy DIY Plaster Roses

You’ll find all sorts of ways to craft or style with these easy DIY plaster roses.

You can hot glue them to a canvas or simply decorate with them by adding a few to a shelf or a lonely tabletop. Watch YouTube tutorials if you’re not like me and want to wing it!

The basic idea is: buy your favorite artificial roses, remove the flowers from their stems, dip in a mixture of plaster of Paris and water, and let dry. Here’s a lovely tutorial for plaster dipped flower art from the beautiful blog So Much Better With Age:

White Roses Bring Peaceful Beauty to the Everyday

Let’s face it. Nature provides the most beautiful décor to bring inside, and no matter where you place a pitcher of white roses, you create A MEDITATIVE MOMENT. And such moments can transform the everyday, feed the soul, and remind us how everything is sacred.

I hope these simple ideas inspire you to savor roses, flowers, and plants in fresh ways!

While I like this quote below from MULAN, for me, it necessitates an expanded notion of what it is to “bloom.”

Because blooming often won’t resemble a lush bouquet of velvety perfection. Blooming may not be a picture of ease, laughter, or readiness for a close-up. Blooming in adversity? It may look like the exhausted body of a heartbroken mother in fervent embodied prayer, desperate and prone on a cold floor, fully surrendered as a vessel for healing light. Blooming may be the vulnerable posture of receptive permeability. Blooming may even be a radiant yet desperate desire to be absorbed into a lifegiving flow.

Maybe this is why we can sense it is always the right time to bloom where we are planted.

Peace to you right where you are.

-michele

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