Plant...then smell the flowers

In this Sunday mailbox…flowers…

“Tyrants always fear art because tyrants want to mystify while art tends to clarify,” – Iris Murdoch

All the art we make — the picture-books and the poems, the paintings and the songs — is our act of resistance to the blade between the horns that menaces us with its unpardonable promise from the moment we are born. – Maria Popova

How should we like it were stars to burn
With a passion for us we could not return?
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me. – W.H. Auden