Talking in Train and Heart Hoya

 

Today when Travalon was at work, the kids drew more flags. I like the weak attempt at a Mexican flag.

And here is the Bahamian flag that Travalon drew yesterday:

I worked from home and thought about going to a protest. I got an email from someone I don't know inviting me to join a pickup choir, rehearsing 3-4 at the Lutheran church right by our old church for a 4:30 protest at the Capitol. I could then have gone right from there to Adoration. It was tempting to slip out of work early, but I had a lot to do and couldn't bring myself to leave for the protest, as much as I'd love to sing in a choir again. I felt a little glum about it, but then on the way to Adoration I drove down Troy Drive, and a train was going over the bridge. I wouldn't have seen that if I'd gone to the protest. Is God speaking to me with trains? This is the second time I didn't go to a protest because I felt like something was telling me not to, and then a train assured me that I was right where I was meant to be.

I forgot to mention that my rick-rack cactus bloomed when we got back from vacation, as if it was very happy to see me again. I thought they bloomed in the autumn, but I'm not complaining. This is the one plant that ever "talked" to me, when it said it wanted to go home with me. And I can't find the blog post about when I got the little heart-shaped leaf that is actually from a hoya, but it was a number of years ago. It has survived longer than a lot of my plants, and today when I watered it, I noticed it has a shoot coming out of it, so maybe it will grow into a whole plant. A few years ago I had several hoya plants (not with the heart-shaped leaves) that were thriving, and one even bloomed, so I thought maybe I should give up on everything else and only grow hoyas... and right after that thought, they all got sick and died. I hope I can keep this little hoya alive, and maybe someday it will be a big hoya and bloom. Their flowers are amazing, so fragrant and dripping with nectar. This also gives me hope that my black ZZ plant will grow again, if I'm just patient. Of course, my purple oxalis died back, then it sent up one leaf, so I was hopeful it would come back, but the leaf died and I've seen no sign of life from it in a year. Maybe it's time to give up on that one.

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