![]() ![]() On the Death of the Beloved by John O’Donohue If you like the poem, please consider buying the book that it appears in: The Flower Can Always Be Changing.ģ. I would wish for you to blossom, to open, to be beautiful. Sit and look out a window and write down what you see. If it’s autumn, collect some leaves and press them in a book you love. If it’s summer, a big glass of ice water. If it’s winter, have a cup of hot chocolate outside for me. Have a dish of strawberry ice cream in my name. Sit on the front stoop and watch the clouds. Have a long soak in the bathtub with candles, maybe some rose petals. In lieu of flowers, walk in the trees and watch the light fall into it. Take out a paint set and lay down some colours. And think of what John Maynard Keynes said, “My only regret in life is that I did not drink more Champagne.” Or what Dom Perignon said when he first tasted the stuff: “Come quickly! I am tasting stars!” Smell it, touch the petals.ĭrink a nice bottle of wine with someone you love. ![]() So in lieu of flowers: Buy a book of poetry written by someone still alive, sit outside with a cup of tea, a glass of wine, and read it out loud, by yourself or to someone, or silently. His father had requested in lieu of flowers, please take a friend or loved one out for lunch.Īlthough I love flowers very much, I won’t see them when I’m gone. A few years ago I read a friend’s father’s obituary on Facebook. ![]()
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