And while the rose, poppy, and peace lily are all three historically significant flowers, there is no bloom with as deep a ...
“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...
She was gentle and generous, a treasure who brightened her father's dark life. One day the old ... her ear and turned her into a beautiful lotus flower that drifted away from the palace.