A repentant would-be burglar in the United Kingdom sent his 91 year-old victim a boquet of flowers, with a card and an apology. He was sorry he had frightened her, but he thought the house was vacant a the time. He apologized for breaking in. He fled the house without stealing anything.
The local police are asking him to give himself up. What will they charge him with? Sending flowers to a would-be victim, or for breaking in and scaring a 91 year-old woman?
The language of flowers is not a new art however. Floriography is commonly thought to come from the Victorian age, when flowers were used to send coded messages. However flower language originated in medieval and Renaissance culture. Saints depicted in paintings are seen with flowers that were symbolic of the saint’s virtues.
Some of the most common use of flowers as a language are: red roses for love, pansies for thoughtfulness, carnations for admiration, white lilies for purity, pink roses for a lesser affection, white roses for eternal love, daisies for innocence and blue violets for faithfulness, to name but a few.
There is however a modern flower power that has left its mark on our society.
Flower Power had its most powerful rise in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s in the counter-cultural movement of the Hippies. These Flower Children were a symbol of non-violent ideology, standing against the use of war to solve international problems and in particular the war in Vietnam. The Hippies were determined in their call for social change, including a stopping of the threat of the nuclear cold war between the Super Powers, USA and the Soviet Union.
The early tweny year-olds and teenagers of the Hippy movement were known to give flowers to policemen and bystandgers and place flowers in the barrels of guns and revolvers, as a sign of peace not war.
This photo of a teenager placing flowers in the muzzle of the guns of riot squads, came to symbolize the era of the Flower Power movement.
The photo is courtesy of photos that changed the world
The Hippie generation became known as the ‘love generation’ as it widely embraced the sexual revolution of free-love. They were also known for their liberal use of soft drugs, such as cannabis, to explore alternate states of consciousness.
‘Give Peace A Chance,’ was their theme song. They practiced religious as well as cultural diversity, embracing Eastern philosophies and spiritual concepts, wildly rejecting recognized institutions, both through their actions and their outlandish mode of dress. Their brightly painted VWs became a common symbol of their movement, alongside their alternate and self-sustained life style. Sexual frankness was also their hallmark, with more open accpetance gained for bisexual, homosexual and transsexual people. For the first time unmarried couples could live or travel together.
The Hippies and their Flower Power left a major stamp on cultures world-wide, leaving a lasting influencing on popular music, health foods and the taking of vitamins, fashion, television, film, literature and art. It also was the period that saw the beginnings of the Cyber Space revolution. People would never be able to say what they do on the Internet, if it had not been for the revolutionary movement of the Hippies.
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