A quickie today. The MAM prompt for today was “houseplants” Not what I was planning to post about, but still a good one.

Many years ago when I had just moved into my new home, a friend gave me a jade plant clipping just about the size of this one.

Very nice I thought…maybe in thirty years…

Fast forward almost thirty years…

And that’s not all. Just this past year my plant gave me another gift…

Momo found a patch of sunlight to nap under the flowering jade.

First time it bloomed in all those years.

I was told it flowered because the temperature fluctuations in the house were just right this winter. A jade plant is after all a desert plant and likes those extremes.

I prefer to think of it as a gift, a minor miracle, a blessing; choosing mysticism over science this time around…or maybe a little bit of both. After all they can go hand in hand. Einstein was a scientist who believed in the mystical and Maimonides was a physician, rabbi, and mystic.

I think of this plant like a child who you nurture, care for, and then one day before your very eyes they blossom.

Well it’s still March 2nd but not by much. Better send this out and go to bed.

Until tomorrow.