“Growth and senescence exists within me. Each dawn, I am rejuvenated with the sun's glow and with a fresh, new clove scent. A scent that helps keep us both alert.” GrowthScentRejuvenationNatural SpiritSenescenceWild Carnation Book:Fleur of Yesterday Source: Fleur of Yesterday
“As if in answer to her question, an odor of decay seeped through thee doorway from the darkened shop. Senescence, she thought. A beautiful word for what happened to all living things as they progressed toward death. Petals fading, leaves falling, stems beginning to rot.” DeathDecayFadingWiltingSenescence Book:The Flower Arrangement Source: The Flower Arrangement
“We offhandedly devised many imaginary scenarios during the course of any given day, a habit that began as acerbic banter between two hypersharp intelligences, whose function seemed to be to absorb the venom of normal mundane tensions, anxieties, jealousies, resentments, and nano-betrayals, but gradually transformed into a daily hedge against death, an acknowledgement of our painful ephemerality, and a bid to take the kitchen utensils of mortality out of the hands of happenstance and put them back into our own drawer.” ViolenceMatricideSenescence Book:Consumed Source: Consumed