🌹 Sympathy Gifts

You’re standing in the florist. There are lilies and roses and chrysanthemums and white orchids, and they’re all beautiful, and

You’re standing outside their door. Maybe you’ve been there before — this house, this street — but it feels different

There’s something about putting something together with your own hands. Not just clicking “add to cart” — actually choosing each

Grief doesn’t just live in the chest. It lives in the body. It’s the heaviness in the limbs that makes

Nobody handed you a microphone and asked for a full eulogy. They asked for “a few words.” Maybe at the

You said yes before you knew what you were agreeing to. “Would you be willing to say a few words?”

There’s a specific kind of quiet that settles in after a loss. Not silence exactly — more like the whole