THE TRANS PLANT

Posted on June 6, 2009 - Filed Under Bright Ideas | 1 Comment

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I received the re-gifted orchid plant in December, my favorite season because the leaves have all fallen and it gives my allergies a rest.

Not being horticultural, I planned on enjoying the orchid plant while it lasted. I placed it on the windowsill by my stove where it got an occasional streak of sunlight and I watered it whenever I remembered. Without the flowers it’s not so showy, which I like.

It is now May. The branches are bark brown and winter spindly and the entire plant is covered in a thick coating of grease from the New Zealand lamb chops I enjoy cooking in a pan on my stovetop. Just last week I watered the orchid plant for the first time in months I’m sure, and I noticed that it had sprouted two new hearty green leaves and several new spindly little branches. It’s greasy exterior makes it look moist. I am so pleased that it lives.

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  1. Arindam on May 3rd, 2009 2:44 am

    Lovely post :-) For some reason I could not submit my comment in the post “art or porn”, I was trying to reply to your last comment there. Trying below once again.

    Hi Marina

    That also reminds me of “Coffee and Cigarettes” by Jim Jarmusch! I loved the treatment of conversation (and sometimes lack of it) in that film!

    I want to publish deferred-live.net/muse as my anthology of things. This is what I wrote in http://deferred-live.net/muse/about ::
    This is also an anthology, or an attempt at such. Without the convention of any library indexing kind of thing. Like a fluid flow of the self. If you happen to be here and if you think that this strikes a chord someplace, somewhere; it will be nice to have a coffee and cigarettes.

    Actually I an incorrigible optimist. And I do believe in utopia :-) still and my deferred-live project is an attempt of reassurance. To me first.

    I am also writing this :: http://wincliff.info When (and if I get to) I publish I want to use a confluence of media. So it won’t be a “book”. Won’t be a “compact disc”. I love the feel of a book and I miss the absence of sound and light in a book. And so I dream about a hardware that is a convergence of both and I know it can’t be prohibitively expensive. I am a Mechanical engineer from IIT (which in India is equivalent to a MIT) and now I am into software development for the last 5 years. So I know my dream has a high probability of not becoming a day dream. So this is what I want to do with deferred-live.net

    And well, I am not procrastinating (I love http://www.phdcomics.com though!) :-) The canvas is not ready yet.

    I am coming back to your pages again and again!

    — Ari.

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