Meet SpacePlant. SpacePlant was a gift from Lenny, commemorating my graduation from UC Berkeley in May 2007. We had only been dating for a month or so at that point, so it was an appropriately nonspecific gift. Partly because I like Lenny and want to honor his present, and partly because succulents are relatively difficult to kill with neglect, SpacePlant is still with us today, sunning happily in a colorful pot atop the radiator shelf in our office.
I realized recently that it really won't be practical to take my several plants with me when I move. There are many, many things I will soon be leaving behind: animal, vegetable and mineral. It is frustrating to have to start over in so many ways, abandoning objects and tools I've acquired in my 4 or so years of independent living, but the idea of leaving SpacePlant and his family of succulent friends just made me plumb sad.
In a small way, SpacePlant is a symbol of the happiest stretch of time in my life: finishing my undergraduate thesis and graduating from college, putting a lid on some of my crazy, meeting and falling in love with Lenny, and starting a new life with him living in sin. Now, I'm beginning school again, moving back on my own and leaving Lenny behind in California. In many ways, two steps forward feels a lot like two steps back. Change is a funny thing.
2 comments:
hi, you. I just thought I'd drop a line so that you're aware of my presence, and i'm no longer lurking in the virtual mist. i like this blog gig you got going on. keep it up! i'm really bad at following up on my coffee proposals, but every time i mention it, i genuinely do mean the intent behind it...so if by chance i do call you for a cup o' joe before too long, i hope you might oblige. keep fighting the good fight, girl. -Alexandria
Lindsay,
Please just have Lenny bring this beautiful plant to Zughaus when he moves in. I would be happy to babysit your plants for a year. I already take care of so many it would be no trouble at all.
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