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The Shape of Surrender
I love flowers! 💐🪻🌷🌼🌻☺️☺️☺️ Tulips are my husband’s favorite. So when he buys them for me, it’s a quiet win for us both—him offering what he loves, me receiving what I cherish. One bouquet caught my eye as the morning light poured in. The tulips had bent so gracefully toward the window, their stems stretched and their petals opened wide. No forcing. No striving. Just responding to the light. I tried to rotate the vase to help them “straighten up.” I thought they’d realign if I just turned them in a different direction. But they didn’t. They kept their posture, curved as if still remembering the light they were first…