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Over coffee, a colleague told me the story of an artist who planted seeds as a work of art. When each seed became blossom, the artist plucked the petals gingerly from the stems. The petals were mailed away to his friends and family with this sentiment: All the while these seeds were becoming, I was thinking of you. These petals are my love for you.
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Hofsess, B.A. (2016). These Petals Are. In: Unfolding Afterglow. Doing Arts Thinking: Arts Practice, Research and Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-531-9_4
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