TO BLOSSOM AGAIN

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Years ago, I bought a Kalanchoe at the grocery store. A tiny plant in a small pot. I put it in the kitchen window on warm days. Last year, I transferred it to a terracotta pot. It stopped blooming. I remembered that before something blooms, it must establish roots. It already had roots, but now it had lots of room to expand. It was also in shock being foisted into the unknown.

As winter arrived, I left the Kalanchoe on the table and talked to it. I gave it a drink now and then. Some days sun caressed and warmed the earth in the pot. Stems thickened, buds appeared, then blossoms – beautiful rich red tiny blossoms.

One stem grew like jack’s beanstalk. The slightest movement of the table (like a Great Dane bumping into it) threw the terracotta pot off balance and at times it fell over. I snipped the gangly stem, made a hole in the dirt providing a place for a new beginning. I gave the stem a tiny drink daily for about a week. It lost one leaf. Soon there were 4 clusters of buds.

We can learn to blossom again.

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