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Essays

Long-form explorations of professional floristry—its economics, ethics, and enduring value. These pieces are meant to last.

Series

Thought Leadership Column

Desire Paths

Where the industry walks when the sidewalk doesn’t serve.

A recurring essay series exploring the unofficial routes artisans and business owners carve when existing systems fail the work—where collective yearning becomes evidence, and a trail becomes a road.

James Dempsey, AIFD · Monthly · 6-part arc

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  • Essay 1 The Trails We Make
  • Essay 2 The Sidewalk That Failed Us forthcoming
  • Essay 3 Collective Yearning forthcoming
  • Essay 4 The Economics of Refusing forthcoming
  • Essay 5 Floristry as Stewardship forthcoming
  • Essay 6 Blue Highways forthcoming

Economics & Pricing Reality

Why Markup Isn't Dishonest

Markup is not a hidden surcharge. It is the mechanism by which a florist absorbs risk, pays skilled labor, manages waste, and remains capable of delivering work on demand. Without it, professional floristry does not become more honest—it simply becomes impossible.

James Dempsey, AIFD · January 2026

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Craft & Meaning

Practice Without Doctrine: Craft, Meaning, and the Return to Form

Modern life asks us to separate ourselves—producer, operator, artist, human—as if these were roles to be performed rather than expressions of a single self. Yet lived experience resists this division. In the act of making, abstraction gives way to responsibility, and the self is briefly made whole again.

James Dempsey, AIFD · December 2025

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