Opinion | Finding Beauty in Fake Flowers

The beautiful thing calls on us to
long because it is already being lost
— real flowers, or even more so,
real cut flowers.

The cut flower is not only beautiful,
but a symbol of every beautiful
thing — all that blossoms, glows and
passes — which is why it adorns the
valentine, the wedding, the funeral.
Exquisitely tenuous, endangered,
mortal, the cut flower is an everyday
recommitment to love and to time.