If you look at the food in the shopping cart, it is full of "food," ice cream, milk, frozen waffles, orange juice, all in plastic containers. When I see that food I think of the complete disconnect the consumer has with the origins of their nourishment. Where exactly does our food come from? Who and what resources played a part in the creation of all the machinery involved in the growing, processing, and transportation of this food? Whose hands touched our food directly? Is the final product in the cart anything at all like the seed that started the plant, or the embryo that started the animal?
The same with these chosen "flowers." It is impossible to communicate completely with words. The origin and history of each individual word, along with the many interwoven factors that constitute a single being, their experience, and what they are trying to communicate, makes words just another medium of transmission.
Words sustain us, just as this kind of food does. The additives in the words, meant for a "longer shelf life," keep them alive and able to be transported farther, but they do create a distance between the person tasting the food and the person planting the seed of the fruit that is to become the food.
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