Plant Dance

As I’ve previously mentioned, I’m a plant enthusiast, and I’m always on the lookout for plants to adopt and call my own. This being said, I went to my local coffee shop/plantstore, and laid eyes on the most interesting plant there. This particular plant, Goeppertia Insignis, or the rattlesnake plant, was folded, with the leaves proudly showing off their violet portion, shimmering under the store’s warm lighting. Of course, I had to take it home and add it to my collection. Now, anyone who is a proud owner of this plant knows what it does during the day, but I, however, had never seen it. So I woke up the next morning, opened my shades, and noticed this plant completely splayed out in all directions, leaves twisting and bending towards the sunlight spilling into my room. After a moment of sheer panic, I watched it in awe. It would bend and sway different directions, choreographed by the sun itself. As the sun set, stars beginning to show themselves off, my little rattlesnake plant slowly pulled up its leaves, as if holding the light close to it, unwilling to let it go. And so my plant held itself in this hug until the sun rose again. I propose that we have a lot to learn from this little dancing plant. Let’s all begin to let ourselves stretch out towards the light, let it take us where it may, soak up every ounce of it, because much like we can’t avoid the night, with its own synchronicities, we can’t avoid the day either.