Little Cactus

I found this cactus leaf on the ground where I had fed Sadie her brome hay, a couple days after we moved her to my daughters place. I noticed it had a little white root growing out of it, and thought…”what the heck”, and I planted it in a little pot I had sitting around with some old dirt in it, and set it up on the shelf with the other plants, under their plant light.

I went online and researched “growing cacti “. Many of the posts I read were about propagating from an already established plant. I didn’t have that, I didn’t think, so I just went with it and hope the little cactus leaf did it’s thing.

That was over a month ago, and I looked at it after I got back from this trip, and it’s growing!

Today has been a day of rest, flare ups, and trying to quiet my mind. I always get melancholy when I have leave family and go back home. As I’m sitting here, thinking about the little cactus growing brand new, after being baled into a hay bale, eaten around by a horse, and laying on the ground for who knows how long…growing. I compared that to this situation that’s been so hard for me to come to terms with….moving Sadie, a few other major life changes, and took it as a sign that there can always be new growth out of what appears to be old.

I had been told that same/similar thing by someone that I’m close to, and logically I agreed….but I do better when what I think and logically know can happen…..as compared to FEELING and knowing something can happen. If that makes sense.

I guess the little cactus made me feel that things will be good, that new and positive growth can come out of something that looks dead. Because that’s the way I’d felt during the time I’ve spent processing all of these changes. Like someone or something had died.

Sometimes things are way over complicated, and over analyzed…..sometimes it just needs to be a simple little plant, growing new after being almost dead.

Thank you little cactus…

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