Need Home For My Bamboo Plants
Its funny how we get attached to the most mundane or smallest things and worry about them. Our move is only three days away and I have bamboo plants that I had nutured for five months and had grown accustomed to.
Silently, but surely the plants had become silent members of the family. I even found myself caressing the small leaves once in a while and when no one was around I even muttered a few loving words to the bamboo sticks as plants supposedly respond to human interaction.
I had picked the plants up from one of those tacky Chinese shops at the mall. Plants have always been my weakness and instead of browsing through the Chinese nik nacks I had found myself making a beeline towards the bamboo plants.
Most were grouped together in bunches of four to six sticks in little green porcelain pots. The leaves of the plants gleamed and beckoned my touch and yet I didnt not want any of them. They looked cluttered and I wanted something dainty.
I found myself bending down and pulling out a small porcelain pot that had been pushed behind a small laughing buddha.
Two young bamboo shoots were tied together and were kept stable by pebbles as small as my fingernails in a pot that was a little bigger than my hand. It could not get smaller than that.
The salesperson didn't want to sell it and tried to herd me back to the bamboo shelves to pick up a bigger plants but my mind was made up- it was love at first sight. There was something sad and yet hopeful about two bamboo sticks struggling to live despite all odds.
I wanted to be part of their tiny yet significant struggle.
But our love affair lasted for a rather short period and I have to find a new owner. My bamboo shoots arel low maintence; all they need is plenty of water, cool envirornment and indirect sunlight.
Any takers?
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dee:
take them with you:)
(throw out the water ...wrap the bamboo in wet tea towel or small rag ... cover the bamboo or the whole pot (whichever) in a plastic bag...seal it...and just for insurance cover it with another plastic bag and carry it in your suit case or box
Posted by: temporal | April 13, 2006 05:30 PM
ahhh, I can see motherly love all around!!!
Why can't u take them to Boston?
Posted by: Lakshmikanth | April 13, 2006 05:30 PM
its berter to be an aniaml thse days . atleast they get justice. we pay for our wifes food, clothers, feed them give them monye and they put 498 on us. shobha de said men are in 16 centur and moved women to 22 century. this is not fair. dishinest people will suffer and belong to terrrost family..
bamboo plants also get love better to be an plant now also bit not a man. man is lving in 16 century
todays women only knows how to abuse his parents and whole sale free to kill children and take money money and money from everywhere.
Posted by: victim | April 13, 2006 11:47 PM
I love all sentient and non sentient beings. Soon I will rise from being a Bodhisattva and adorn the compassionate robes of a Buddha. I can achieve enlightenment within this lifetime;)
How is it connected to my bamboo shoots? Our lives are connected. A little bit of microcosm connected to greater macrocosm. We all are interconnected- the universe and its inhabitants , the victims and their predators.
Self- reflect, learn your lesson, shed your anger and live a better life.
Hope you find some peace within your heart, victim and I mean it
Vengeful anger is our biggest enemy
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