Dream Wedding

She waited her whole life for this moment. From the time she was a little girl, she’d read magazines, designed dresses, and searched out churches. She would have the greatest wedding ever. After all, you only get married for the first time once. This work by @thebeautythatstillremains is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike …

Flowers In Beijing

Where Flowers Come From

Farmers used to plant seeds, and let things grow gradually. They plowed, sowed, and watered the ground, plucked up weeds, fought battles against crows and insects. If all went well, they would have life. Now, farmers bring in their plants on trucks and put them in the ground already in bloom. This kind of activity …

Cherry Blossoms

There are certain signals that tell everyone that spring has arrived. For most of us, this signs are a blessing, cheering us that winter is finally over. For certain others though, the living dead, the ones for whom any sign of animus is despised, these signals do not enliven them, but send them into their …

Pink Bells

It may be that nature is random and chaotic and lacks any inherent meaning except what can be gleaned from the genetic wizardry of evolution. Or it may be that what we see is only the surface. Underneath, there might be an entire world, invisible to us the same way electrons and strings and emotions …