The bud stands for all things, even those things that don’t flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing, though sometimes it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on the brow of the flower, and retell it in words and in touch, it is lovely until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing. —Galway Kinnell Reflections on a Poem We all forget, at times, our loveliness. We forget why and how to care for ourselves. And we definitely f