394. Morning Glories

After Christina lost her Grandma, she let some “weeds” grow in her garden. Turns out they were her grandma’s favorite flower: morning glories.

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Christina: Hi, I’m Christina and it’s going to be okay.  Several weeks ago, I got a call from my aunt that my grandmother had stopped eating and drinking. She was 88, so the signs that she was starting to die were Maybe not surprising in terms of her age, but because there was no other event that preceded this, it really caught me off guard.

I spent the next week, thankfully, by her side at her home every day. We had a lot of wonderful conversations. I got to sing for her something that she’d always loved. And I held her hand. And talked about all the things that I loved about her and all of the things that I wanted to remember forever  after she died, I was looking for some comfort and I returned to my community garden plot and there had been this thing, this unidentified plant, growing there for weeks,

I didn’t know what it was, but am I. opinion. Weeds are also just a matter of opinion, so I decided to let it grow. And while previously there had been nothing but these leafy greens taking up a corner of the trellis,  after I walked in, I saw that those leafy greens had taken over the entire trellis. But they weren’t just leaves and they weren’t just green.

There were also blue flowers on them, and I knew immediately what they were. But I waited until I got home to use Google image search to identify. I’m sure enough. They’re exactly what I thought they were. They were morning glories. And the fact that they were morning glories was lovely in and of itself.

But what was more surprising and more wonderful is that I hadn’t planted them. And beyond that, my grandmother, whose birthday is in September, morning glories are her birth flower. I had just bought a necklace with a morning glory on it to wear every day to hold her close.  So while I can’t talk to her every day in the same way and have conversations on the phone as we always did, I think that this was her way of jumping up and down and telling me, yeah, I’m here.

I see you and everything’s going to be okay.