1. Buttercups that light up the underneath of your chin, as if you’ve swallowed a firefly.   2. Wildflowers found on rainy afternoon walks.   3. A peppermint stick in your coffee in the fall.   4. The watery smell of the garden hose on an April day.   5. The deep smell of fresh honeysuckle carried on the warm summer wind.   6. The slow feeling of decomposing as the ocean takes the sand from underneath you, burying you deeper into the earth.   7. Kissing your loved one in the

Oh, reticent December. Your intrinsic beauty is forgotten. Your natural fairness is hidden in a holiday. Nestled to a hearth with a tree...