A lesson on resilience
My daughter has a pet plant, Vivaldi. He’s a succulent, and a nice, bushy one, too. But it wasn’t always that way for Vivaldi. When she first brought him home from the nursery, she had special soil and instructions to “be careful not to overwater a succulent.”
That first summer, Vivaldi did great out in the yard. Evy was careful not to overwater him, but he did get rained on a few times. In the winter she brought him in the house and continued to “be careful not to overwater him.” In fact, she was so careful, he sometimes wouldn’t get a drink for weeks!
Eventually, Vivaldi shed some leaves. Then his remaining leaves started to shrink. And finally, he began to resemble a dust bunny. By the following summer, he was so small and shriveled, we thought he was dead.
