h e r b a l: floral fragrance, peaches and cream, cafes, messy buns and braids, fleeting glances, love’s just a feeling, graphic tees and cardigans, beanies, glasses, sketchbooks and charcoal smudges
g r e e n: chain coffee shops, bullet journals, filled calendars, likes to wear heels, yoga, dark jeans and blouses, watches and handbags, what is love, confident
b l a c k: love is a chemical response, hoodies and shorts, short messy hair, worn out sneakers, cloudy days, smell of rain, likes to stay home, old sofas, cameras, stargazing
m i l k: peppy cheerful, fashionable, probably rich, down to earth, wants to fall in love, makes friends easily, never checks the weather, pink lemonade, painting and singing, light hair
I know I overuse “I love you,” but I really do mean it every goddamn time. Those split second moments when someone’s laughing and their face goes all ugly and dumb and it makes your chest warm? That’s love, you son of a bitch. When someone gives you a good compliment on a bad day and the pain stops for a second and you’re so grateful you could cry? Love, motherfucker! Go ahead and argue semantics with me about how that’s actually _______ and real love is difficult or eternal or painful or takes constant dedication. Yeah, some kinds of love, maybe. The big kinds, sure. But who cares! Don’t ignore all of the love in your life just because it isn’t permanent or profound! I love you! I love you I love you I love you!!!!!
So this couple walks in- a broad-shouldered man with an accent (Italian, I think) and a man that I can best describe as looking like Cecil Palmer.
“Okay- weird question. So you guys did our wedding- amazing by the way. And it’s been a month and just about all the flowers in the vases have died by now except for this one thing that’s really holding on in there. And we want to know what that plant is and how to take care of it to keep it alive. And we don’t know how to like… describe it and it sounds kind of weird to go to up to a stranger and say ‘hey what’s this weird wiggly green plant you put in our vases a month ago?’ but I guess that’s what I’m asking.”
“Sounds like curly willow. If you keep it in water it will eventually start rooting and you can grow a new plant from it from the cutting.”
“That is too cool! What do you suggest we do?”
“Well, you can keep it in the water for now, but eventually you’ll want to pot it in soil because that’s how it’s going to get its nutrients.”
“Can we,” the Italian guy asks. “Can we plant it in the floor?” I figure he means ‘plant it outside.’
I nod. “It’ll keep growing.”
“What does it look like when it’s bigger? Does it stay like a wiggly stick?”
“Oh, no, it’ll branch out. It’s actually a tree.”
The skinnier one turns to his husband and says:
“Did you hear that, honey? They gave us a tree! We have a tree now!”