Flower Pressing to Nurture Creative Energies

Day #31: 100 Happy Days

Image Collage by the Author

Last spring, my kindergartner niece took me to her backyard to pick flowers. She meticulously collected freshly fallen flowers in her basket and came back home to press them in her little flower press. She was so absorbed in placing the pressing plank, the wax paper, the flowers, the wax paper, and another plank again, and again. Never did I expect…