magnolias [lifestyle] - Post-Magazine

magnolias [lifestyle] - Post-Magazine

According to my mother, the magnolia tree outside our house blossomed the night I was born. When she left for the hospital, the tree's branches only had buds. As if by magic, when she returned thirty-six hours later with me in her arms, the flowers had opened their pink and white petals to welcome me home.For the fifteen years before my family moved, I marked the passage of time and the progression of my life with the blooming of the magnolias. …