Flowers for the Immaculate Conception (Anne Frank, edition)

From one day to the next, full bloom, then destroyed.

Temperatures usually change here throughout the years from day to night by 30 some degrees. But the other day we had a change of more than sixty some degrees.

I recall times of distress for Jesus’ good mom, which it would be good for us to remember during this Lent.

• You have heard that it was said: “The dead get more flowers than the living because regret is stronger than gratitude.” — Anne Frank (via her father?)
• But I say to you: The purpose of that saying is that we are to make gratitude stronger than regret: give flowers today, because we’re here today, gone tomorrow. A flower? Yes: Hail Mary…