For spring? Groundbreaking.
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April 24, 2020
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My phone's camera roll is mostly plants now.
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This week
I have been craving flowers. Craving them in the visceral way I would normally crave something like enchiladas or dill pickle potato chips or frozen custard. I am not the only one feeling this way, and I am lucky that I can walk around my neighborhood and see so many blooming things. ( Florals for spring do feel groundbreaking this year!) But filling my camera roll with succulents and jasmine isn't enough. I want more. I thought I might sate this flower hunger by re-reading Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief. Plus I wanted to consume beautiful descriptions of places far from my home—never have I pined so hard for Florida swamps!—and I thought some low-stakes niche drama would prove a comforting distraction. It did. But it only left me wanting more flowers.
This strangely persistent desire reminds me of a phrase that a friend taught me, just a week or two into social distancing: skin hunger. It's the term psychologists use for our need to have a physical connection to other humans. Flower hunger is a related affliction: The desire to have a connection with the natural world. Or anything beyond the confines of our homes and screens, really. It makes me feel just a tiny bit better to give it a name.
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I'm reading
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Pie chart
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I’m looking & listening
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GIFspiration
My brain saying one thing and my body vehemently disagreeing.
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