#EG15 Ivory European Water Lily Scented Candles "It's alive

"It's alive

It's the kind of abstract artwork that makes marine biologists do a double-take

I turned the piece over

who'd spent thirty years perfecting the art of diplomatic silence

#EG15 Ivory European Water Lily Scented Candles "It's aliveWhen my sister called to tell me she'd bought me a ceramic flower from some company called Chive, I pictured one of those tacky yard ornaments our grandmother used to collect the kind that attracted both mosquitoes and neighborhood ridicule. 'It's for your wall,' she said, as if that made it better. I imagined a porcelain disaster that would make my Paris apartment look like a retirement home in Tampa. But then it arrived in this impossibly elegant