I love your mini essay, Kate! I know that feeling, and reading about your experiences with it made me feel it again. Like a meta-experience. I also know now that the roses in the dunes in front of my house are actually Rosa rugosa, and not Rosa canina as I previously thought :)
Thank you so much for saying you felt it, too! Sometimes when I write about emotional phenomena I wonder if I'm mistakenly assuming that my personal experience is universal. Glad to be right about this one. :) <3
Yes please, more like it. I live on an island in the Pacific Northwest. If I didn't live here, I'd probably be in Maine. We have beach roses here too. Apparently they are invasive in the US. But then, aren't we all?
Thank you, John! Yes, I was reading about how quickly and ravenously the beach roses spread. That's certainly in evidence around here. Great for me, and probably less wonderful for other plants.
This was so beautiful, Kate. We have those beach roses in West Seattle too and am I entirely obsessed with them.
They're great! So brazen and sloppy! And oh, that scent.
I might need to track down this soap... and hah, brazen and sloppy! I always think of roses as somehow polite, but these have a case otherwise.
I love your mini essay, Kate! I know that feeling, and reading about your experiences with it made me feel it again. Like a meta-experience. I also know now that the roses in the dunes in front of my house are actually Rosa rugosa, and not Rosa canina as I previously thought :)
Thank you so much for saying you felt it, too! Sometimes when I write about emotional phenomena I wonder if I'm mistakenly assuming that my personal experience is universal. Glad to be right about this one. :) <3
Yes please, more like it. I live on an island in the Pacific Northwest. If I didn't live here, I'd probably be in Maine. We have beach roses here too. Apparently they are invasive in the US. But then, aren't we all?
Thank you, John! Yes, I was reading about how quickly and ravenously the beach roses spread. That's certainly in evidence around here. Great for me, and probably less wonderful for other plants.
Love this so much. Def want more like it! So good
yayyyyy thank you 💖