Dear Spider Plant

You have kept me connected with Dad and Marie for so many years. Both while they were here, and especially since they passed. You suffered through Fairmount Avenue with no light and thrived here for so long. I have gifted your babies to so many I am confident you will live on. I have only the rooted baby of you in my kitchen and you (large and small) haven’t been thriving for a few years now. Lovely roots, yet your leaves seem to die off so quickly. It hasn’t been an easy decision, and I’m going to let you go. It wasn’t until this morning when I realized that I could throw you in the compost and give you fully to the earth where you belong that I feel confident in this choice. Still a little scary, yet my connection to these ancestors is so much stronger in other ways, that I believe it is time. Together we will choose the perfect day to set you free!