The Earth Remembers

Basale Soppu- Malabar spinach

There was a Malabar spinach and a guava growing next to the coconut tree. When we brought down the coconut tree in November, these two seemed to disappear too. Or so we thought. The roots of the guava were still intact; they sprang up again about a month ago. If that was a surprise, the spinach followed soon after, pushing through the soil. The seeds had lain safely buried in the earth, and the soil had remembered to send them back into the light, to see the sky once more.