Thank you for your kind words of guidance and good wishes. Particularly the bit about the flowers, because I think you are definitely on to something there. Well, and all the rest of it, too, but as you say, flowers always help.

I just need to find some small bindweed (for humility), some chervil (for sincerity), some columbine (for anxiousness and trembling), and something for devotion. (I am currently favouring Peruvian Heliotrope over Honking Daffodils, even if the latter are more traditional. One does not wish one's bouquet of abject supplication to provoke laughter if one can help it.

As to the words, those will take a bit longer. It's always so much more difficult to write something short, alas.