Trees and flowers are so important. The idea of blooming is the idea of becoming something different.
I see a parallel industry for independent music blooming alongside film music.
The best advice I can give a girl is to keep new relationships private. There is nothing like a handful of well-intentioned 'girlfriend advice' to derail a blooming romance.
A good poem is an amazing thing: a perfectly distilled, articulate moment. It opens you up - sometimes slowly, like the blooming of a flower, and sometimes with a quick knife-slice.
I'll never forget the blooming happiness that spread in me like the sun coming up when Lydia's obstetrician poked me awake: 'Congratulations... you have a fine son.'
I'm always just focused on being great where I'm at and blooming where I'm planted.
Joy comes from places you least expect it. It's usually the simple things, like watching my son play basketball or going through Central Park when the blossoms are blooming.
I think a lot of mothers are doing as I am: starting up their own ventures as their children grow older, and having a kind of second blooming.
The begonia is an amazing plant... it just keeps going along and blooming, and when cut back, it starts up again.
They say you'll be blooming when you're in love; I agree, but what is important to bloom is taking care of yourself, too.
