Excerpt: I believe in the the Law of Attraction which states something like, ‘Energy attracts like energy. Be the energy you want to attract.’ So I actually did some naming research and finally came up with Imara, which means ‘strong’ in Swahili.

This is my first blog post since the beginning of February! I could have written 100 of them since then just about my plants. Here’s the first one in a possible cathartic storytelling of plant life series. This story evolved from buying a plant stand.

My daddy has an excellent green thumb. He’s always had plants and anytime I’ve visited he’s asked if I wanted to take one back with me. I always said no because I wasn’t going to take care of them. Since the pandemic made me a plant Mama, when he asked if I wanted him to bring me one when he came to visit I said, “Yes!”