{"id":200,"date":"2013-06-11T08:51:19","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T15:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slowbloom.com\/blog\/?p=200"},"modified":"2013-06-11T08:51:19","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T15:51:19","slug":"may-sarton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slowbloom.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/may-sarton\/","title":{"rendered":"May Sarton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jillbertini\/4461786182\/\" title=\"pink flowers by jillbertini, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2766\/4461786182_d704c3ac3d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"pink flowers\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>May Sarton has put into a few graceful sentences what I&#8217;ve been attempting to express with this project. This is what Slow Bloom is all about.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt does not astonish or make us angry that it takes a whole year to bring into the house three great white peonies and two pale blue iris. It seems altogether right and appropriate that these glories are earned with long patience and faith &#8230; and also that it is altogether right and appropriate that they cannot last. Yet, in our human relations we are outraged when the supreme moments, the moments of flowering, must be waited for &#8230; and then cannot last. We reach a summit, and then have to go down again.<br \/>\nMaybe patience is the last thing we learn.\u201d<br \/>\n~May Sarton; Journal of a Solitude<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And thank you to Karyn Schwartz, proprietess of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sugarpillseattle.com\/\">Sugarpill<\/a> on Capitol Hill in Seattle, for bringing this to my attention.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/button100x23.png\" style=\"border:0px; width:100; height: 23; \" alt=\"Share Button\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Reddit\",\"Print\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"May%20Sarton\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May Sarton has put into a few graceful sentences what I&#8217;ve been attempting to express with this project. This is what Slow Bloom is all about. \u201cIt does not astonish or make us angry that it takes a whole year to bring into the house three great white peonies and two pale blue iris. 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