ROSES for YOU

As you know, I’ve been recovering from a two-month ordeal of having been environmentally poisoned.

Roses for You © LYON 2025

Doing the requisite rest everyone tells me to do drives me crazy – seems like it makes the healing take longer than I’d like.

I know, I know, don’t push the damn river! So yesterday I thought I’d give myself some playtime as I made myself sit down and rest.

There’s a rose bush outside one of my windows. It had fat, berry-like somethings on the ends of the branches. I couldn’t figure out if they were blooms or berries. But then today they opened into funny little round roses!

I added forget-me-nots in the design because – well, just because – I’m still mourning a sweet friend who passed recently, so they are in honor of her. Anyone who knew Kosan knows – despite being paralyzed from the neck down – how powerfully present she was, how truthful, how vulnerable – and absolutely radically loving, from toe to top.

I loved her ability to affect our lives so deeply, even though she couldn’t move an inch without help. She proved the belief of ‘I have to be do-do-doing’ completely wrong!

And then I made this design into a repeat pattern, which I think is lovely! Would you wear something with this pattern on it? A shirt? A skirt? A scarf? Pants? Or maybe use the fabric for a quilt, or table cloth, or duvet . . .

Remember to live your Dream, even as you take time to rest – even if you don’t want to right then. It’s worth it.

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