Begonia

 
 

My begonia, that I got from my mother’s mother or was it my mother’s cousin? In any case, it is quite suddenly ill. To the point that I think she won’t survive.

 
A wilting begonia in a red and terracotta pot
 

This is her a couple of weeks ago.

 
Begonia leaves sprouting from the root of an older Begonia vine
 

This morning.

 
Wilted leaves at the root of a begonia vine
 

Her babies.

 
Young begonia plants in a black container on a windowsill beside a stuffed bunny and box of tissues
 

But really? I want the mother to come back and thrive as she used to.

Addendum: Once upon a time, there was a begonia, struggling to survive the tender loving oblivion of her human…whose morning started with a giant hairball—left by some unapologetic cat for the human to step in when she sat down at her desk. And ended here. No more worries about that already dead begonia. I have the tendril that was left now soaking in fish emulsion water.

 
A pink smoothie spilled all over a journal, an office chair, and the floor, beside a pile of soil and a tipped-over terracotta pot
 

My datebook is unlikely to recover from the fruit smoothie that drenched it. We will see if my ADD insanity will be able to tolerate the resulting wrinkles in the paper for the rest of the year. Even thinking about it makes me cringe.

 
A wrinkled and smoothie-stained date book drying in the sun beneath a typewriter
 

Addendum 2: I am researching Bullet Journals.

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