The sunflower seeds were a Mother’s Day gift, handed to me just weeks before our cross-country move. My son’s kindergarten teacher, anticipating our road trip, sent the unopened packet of seeds home rather than having them planted in soil. “You can take them with you and plant them when you get there,” she said. But in the craziness of moving across three time zones with three young kids, a dog, etc., we forgot to plant them. One year later, I spotted the seeds in the refrigerator door, where I had stashed them in the hopes that they’d last longer. I found an empty pot in the garage and a small bag of potting soil, and poked a single seed into the crumbs of dirt. Continue reading Growth