Let's Give Flowers All Week Long
Summer Camp Week 10: Make someone's day, the flowers want you to!
Dear Beautiful R&R-ers,
We’re in our final three weeks of Summer Camp, our adventure into re-imagining how we Rest, Relax, Recreate, Recuperate—and any other R we want to throw into the mix.
This week, let’s keep it simple, delightful, artful, natural, and old-school.
Let’s hand out flowers* this week
*If you would like to substitute flowers with poems, love notes, chocolate, or broccoli stalks, go for it.
To make it more fun, give someone a flower (or flowers) every day this week.
Let’s do it for shits & giggles, to spread some color and love, to connect and lift spirits, to add some R&R to everyone’s day, and see how it turns out.
If you’re going, “Wha—… How—…Scary…” I have a few ideas for you. I’ll be right there with you.
Your flower-delivery menu
Grab a few and pass ‘em out
Gather up flowers—or one singular bud—from your garden (or your neighborhood stash), drop a bouquet off at a neighbor’s, take them to your office or wherever you gather with people, and hand out your flowers to a colleague, a friend, training partner, barista, coffee shop, favorite merchant.
You don’t even have to say anything. You can do it anonymously.
These dahlias are from our garden. I channeled our Beauty Hunter friend Liz, who is an ace flower arranger. I am not, but happy with this one.
Take-away flowers
If you invite people over for coffee, brunch, or dinner and happen to have flowers on the table, let someone take away a little bouquet. My mom took these home the other evening, but I love the vase too much to part with it, so I dropped them into one of those glass vases people tend to leave behind.
I call this Still Life With Dahlias, Water Bottle and Pink Painting.
Text a flower to a friend
On a walk downtown, I saw this exquisite dahlia (guess what’s in season??) next to a construction site. I snapped a photo, and texted it to a friend who I knew would love this.
During our past Beauty Salons, a popular description of “Beauty” was the flower growing through concrete—almost exactly what this little filly was doing.
If you like taking photos, try this. Put your phone camera right up to the face of a flower. Roses are great for this. Look at the intricate folds, isn’t nature something? It’s also a bit blush-inducing if you know what I mean.
We could call this “Profile of a Rose” or “Perfume” because can’t you just smell its wonderfulness?
Send a postcard!
Here’s one I made on PostSnap as an example, below. They’re located in the UK, but I gave it a shot and it was easy-peasy (but not free). If you’re new to e-postcards, here’s a screenshot:
FRONT:
I take a photo of these hydrangeas every year, they’re so buoyant, so friendly, so angelic.
BACK:
I have flowers for you, and a super saver subscription deal on Beauty Hunter . . . forever.
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