Please provide a short summary of the essay titled, Peonies, from the collection, Intimations.

Peonies recalls a moment near the beginning of the pandemic when Smith’s busy city life ground to a halt at the mere sight of some gaudy tulips in a park. Smith, alongside a few other women, found herself drawn to the symbol of fertility and ponders the way the moment taught her to submit to the urge to stop and stare, and to submit to interruptions in her life. In a way, this pause in her chaotic routine foreshadowed the pause in most people’s lives when the coronavirus pandemic caused nations to go into lockdown.