This weekend we visited a dear friend who I am connected with because she and my mother-in-law befriended each other in their early twenties. We’ve stayed with our friend many times—she’s a great and generous host—and one of the incredible things about staying with her is that she has lived in her same beautiful house for my partner’s entire life. Each visit is also a return.
On this visit, I took my child out to the back yard and showed him the orchids. These orchids were given to our friend as a housewarming present by my child’s great-grandmother, half a century ago.
What are we planting today that might bloom and keep blooming, decades from now?
