There’s a houseplant in the kitchen that was moved there from the dining room. It has had a difficult life. Beautiful early in its life, it went through a drought when we went on vacation and began a cycle of “failure to thrive on neglect.”

I thought it was nearly dead, so I over-watered it. Then it lay down in its pot.

So in a last-ditch effort to save it, I cut it down. Then it was left to live or die on its own. Oddly enough, it came back beautifully.

When the children were here at Thanksgiving, Katherine moved it

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