forget-me-not’s

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

When This You See, Remember Me

The forget-me-not’s associations with love and remembrance date to the Middle Ages, and were expressed in both the Old French and Middle High German names for this pretty little flower.

Images: forget-me-nots on the parapet in Bonnefont garden (Cloisters, NY). Photograph by Carly Still. And a young woman making a chaplet of forget-me-nots, painted by Han Suess von Kulmbach. The legend on the banderole says“I bind with forget-me-nots”.