Petals For Your Thoughts
Pansies personified - navigating the weeds of love and heartbreak.
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Pansies have held mythological significance since Greek times and are known across cultures as a potent love potion ingredient. Violets have also been recognized as a sapphic symbol since ancient Greece, featured prominently in Sappho's poetry on love and passion and remain a symbol of lesbian (sapphic) love today.
Shakespeare has referenced Greek myths in his works, and coined the phrase "love-in-idleness".  The legend tells that this flower was white until struck by Cupid's golden, arrow, turning it purple with "love's wound" and making its juice a love potion that causes someone to fall in love with the first living being that they see.

The Greek stories and sapphic themes of this flower inspire me. My own experience with them has shown me what resilient plants they are. These cute flowers consistently prove to be among the hardiest, despite their colorful and delicate appearance. I live in Pennsylvania, and have watched pansies survive colder temperatures and heat waves better than most plants. I appreciate the irony of such a tough flower, despite having the name "pansy" be used as an insult to call someone weak.
The name "pansy" comes from the French word "pensée", which means "thought". It was given this name because of the expressive, little faces that these flowers have. I will never grow tired of seeing how they grow with and around eachother in my garden.




start date: 5.8.24
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"The Lovers' Gaze"

"Eavesdropping"

"The Silent Treatment"

"Plea"

"Bedroom Eyes"

"Lovers' Quarrel"

"Unrequited Love"

"Puppylove"

"Prom Night"

"The Cold Shoulder"

"Can We Still Be Friends?"

"A World Without You"

"Taking the High Ground"

"No More Time for Talking, Its All Background Noise"

"My Heart is Yours"

"Lasik is a Cure for Love-Blindness"

"Weathering Your Storm (Ours)"

"Intuitive Anxiety"

"Let You Down"

"Trauma Bonding"

"Last Tear I'll Cry"

"Moving On"

"There's Other Flowers In The Garden, But I Don't Want to Grow With Anyone Else"

"More Than Friends"

"Heartbreak Eyes"

"You Are My Sunshine"

"Yes, I'm Jealous. She's Just Your Type"

"Tango in the Weeds (With You)"

"Afraid to Love Again"

"My Prized Obsession"

"Smitten"

"Are You Nervous?"

"The Thrill of a First Kiss"

"Contention"

"Bad for Me"

"It Takes Two To Tango"

"So You're an Aquarius?"

"Public Displays of Affection"

"Partnership  - Us Against It All"

"Only We Exist"

"The View of Angels"

"Spare Me The Pick-Up Line"

"A Cashmere Touch"

"Gaslight"

"Falling For You Like A Shooting Star"

"If You Aren't Lying, Then Why Is Your Nose Getting Bigger?(Pinnochio)"

"The Weight of Being the One Who is More in Love"

"My Jealous Girl"

"Situationship"

"Twisting Myself Into Everything You Want Me To Be"

"Moments Away From Ruining Our Friendship"

"Loving You & All Your Scars"

"Let's Go Somewhere We Can Be Alone..."

"Fingertips That Touch Me Like A Solar Flare"

"Being Coy"

"You're All Mine"

"Looking At You With Cartoon Character Heart-Shaped Eyes"

"Blow Me (A Kiss)"

"My Red Wine Supernova (Chappell Roan Fans)"

"You Are My Roots"

"Darling, You're a Breath Of Carbon Monoxide"

"Ghosted (You're My Apparition)"

"I Can Feel Your Hummingbird Heartbeat"

"You Played Me Like a Viola"

"We're Just a Pair Of Mismatched Socks"

"One-Sided Argument"

"Swept Up in Your Stormy Blues"

"Dancin' in the Sunlight"

"Worrisome Epiphanies"

"Dysfunctional Attachment"

"Blushing With Roseblood Cheeks"

"Mistaking Ephemeral for Eternal"

"Fasciated Fascination"

"Shower of Sorries"

"Hagio-Amorous"

"Exulansis"

"Ripping Myself Apart With the (Thrilling) Anxiety of the Chase"

"Getting-to-Know-You-Again Jitters"

"The Rest of the World is Background Noise"

"FaceTime Afterglow"

"Ivy Fingers"

"Swallowed By the Space Between Us"

"Fauna'ing Over Her Flora"

"The Garden of What We Used to Be"

"I Wish For You With Every Stray Eyelash"

"Flashbacks of a Breath Apart"

"Listening With My Eyes"

"My Saturn Return Fantasy"

"From the Garden to the Grave"

"Stockholm Syndrome"

"Following Heartlines to the Tropic of Cancer"

"Garden Center Bombshell"

"Dappled Daydreams"

"The Glamour of Gravity"

"Herbicide in a Heart-Shaped Bottle"

"Just A Vespertine Dream"

"Symposium"

"Kaleidoscope Crush"

"Elevator to Venus"

"Overbearing"

"An Eclipse Behind Formerly Fiery Eyes"

"Star-Doomed Lovers"

"Cosmic Covariation"

"Sliver of Doubt"

"Fear of Returning to the Dating Lagoon"

"Erato"

"Gay Panic"

"Starlet (She Gets a Lot of Attention)"

"Bound by the Noose of Fate"

"Gold Crush"

"Trying to Play God With an Atheist"

"Swept into Your Telekinetic Tide""

"If Time Isn't Real Then What Else Do You Call a Lifetime of Waiting?"

"Dreaming Deeper into Your Arms"

"Close Enough to Make My Lungs Stutter"

"You're Just a Gentle Breeze Away From Finding Someone Else"

"The Only Thing Worse Than Cupid's Silver Arrow..." (PT 1)

"Is a Sagittarian One" (PT 2)

"Waiting for My Sweet Psyche"

"Holding You Like a Stick of Dynamite"

"Crestfallen"

"A Spectrum of Possibilities, Reduced to Pastels"

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