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Farewell Flowers

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Funeral Floral Tributes I call Farewell Flowers graced many a Funeral years ago when I worked in small flower shops, then grocery store floral departments, so it was often a lot of time-pressured designing I did for all the friends and families who acknowledged the deceased and comforted the living this way then. Even Nursing Home residents often got to enjoy the flowers sent to them after the Services.
Sometimes customers ordering Farewell Flowers had special requests like feathers, fishing gear, lighthouses, toy firetrucks, things that represented special interests, hobbies, sports, even jobs. I rarely had time or opportunity to photograph all the Tributes and other occasion flower bouquets and arrangements I designed over the years. When having to copy a floral design picture, it felt like I was doing ‘paint by numbers’. I put my heart into creating anything I could design myself. Now retired, I hear that Floral Designers are most often required to be Floral Arrangers copying what customers see presented online. I’d have ‘died a thousand deaths’ making Farewell Flowers mostly that way.

Revolving Door

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A funeral tribute I created over two decades ago

Revolving Door

Death is a Revolving Door,

Part of Life’s Great Process-

Both Entrance and Exit-

the Coming and Going

even Quickly Returning

through Life’s Door

like Jesus or Sri Yukteswar

those Masters Moving Energies,

like Lazarus, like Patients

without ‘Vital Signs’

Quickly Returning Again…

Death is a Revolving Door,

Bodies, Personalities, Stories,

‘Completed’ Missions, Agendas,

all ‘Attachments’ of Spirit

no longer needed, left behind…

Death is a Revolving Door,

Part of the Process of Life-

the Coming and the Going

of Souls Experiencing,

Exploring, Evolving…

Death is Life Continually Moving

between Physical-Spiritual

States of Being- Becoming-

between Densities of Physicalities,

Other Realms and Realities,

through Spectrums of Feelings,

Understandings, Exploring…

Souls Move through Life

Desiring, Creating,

Co-creating with God

then Rest in the Great Oneness,

Resting at Home with God

or Continuing On…

Souls have Free Will

to Stay or Continue On

to Other Adventures,

to Other Fresh Starts,

Forgetting to Remembering,

Moving through Cycles

of Eternal Life,

God’s Everlasting Pure Love

the Power and Essence of Life…

April 8, 2023

Shelley Audrey Wilson

Victoria, BC