Presley Rose card art

Presley Rose

The Woodland Friends · Your Heroes

You are growing just right.

What this friend is telling you

In this card Presley is a little older, standing tall in a dress of real rose petals while the garden glows around her. A rose never hurries. Bud first, then bloom, one petal at a time — and no rose looks over at the next stem to check if it is blooming on schedule. This card comes when you feel behind. Friends taller, faster, allowed more things, further ahead in math or swimming or everything. You are not behind. You are blooming in your own order, and it is the right one.

Watch out for…

comparing your bud to somebody else's bloom. That is how perfectly good roses make themselves sad.

Try this

Write down one thing you can do now that you could not do a year ago. That is proof. You are already blooming.