Even poo has a job to do.
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Sometimes the thing you think is over isn't really over.
One summer, I bought a beautiful red bromeliad that I named Beatriz after my Brazilian aunt, whom I missed desperately. It started dying as soon as I got it. It became a sad, brown dead thing that symbolized failure so I took it outside and forgot about it. The fall came and went, the snow fell and melted and the following spring I decided to deal with the sad dead plant once and for all.
When I dug my fingers into the earth, I discovered a bunch of bulbs that had been beneath the bromeliad the whole time! For almost a year, through a freezing winter, after being forgotten and dejected and ignored, those bulbs were just sitting there, waiting to bust out.
They bloomed into bright orange lillies that poked their cheerful little heads above the other flowers. They'd been waiting the whole time to get their chance. It's never over, even when you think it's over.
Unexpected obstacles can be beautiful and even delicious.
There's a reason that we use plants to flavor our food: Thyme, mint, oregano and many, many other herbs are as sturdy and fierce as we are as humans. They grow in tough corners and in cracks in the sidewalks, and for thousands of years, humanity has used them to bring flavor to their food and healing to their bodies. Herbs are weeds and weeds are ancient and strong.
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