I think reincarnation is real. One day you’ll die, and your atoms will be go back into the universe that birthed you. And then one day those same atoms will come together again to form molecules for another life. It could be a a year later, ten years later, or twenty billion years later. But it will happen. You won’t remember your previous life, but that’s a good thing, because you’ll be able to start anew without the insecurities and trauma that held you back in this one. You’ll get a second chance.

So I got some more plants. Actually I didn’t get them, my dad did. Yesterday, he came home and presented me with four new plants that he got for very cheap from a street vendor. Today he made me plant them in 12-inch pots.

My dad likes gardening (he used to do when he was a teenager) and he would love to have some plants around this house. But he’s lazy. Coincidentally he found a slave who’s naturally inclined towards this hobby, so from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. today, I did unpaid labor under the July sun.

So now I have a Rose plant which is looking quite sad to be honest. Most likely because of the transplant shock. Hopefully it’ll look much happier in a few weeks.

And then there’s this Chambeli plant, which is mostly growing to one side.

A Lady of the night.

And a Jasmine plant.

These last two are in a much better shape.

From my limited gardening experience, it takes about a month for plants to get acclimated to the new pot and environment. But once they do, you start noticing new growth almost every other day.

I decided to add my gardening adventures here as well. I started this at the end of May with a couple of snakes plants, a lemon tree, and some aloe vera (RIP to them). Since then I’ve added a few more: a calico plant, sweet basil, and orange jasmine (murraya paniculata). The actually started really growing this month and I’m seeing new shoots in all of them.

I also some pothos growing in my window but it’s not picture worthy yet. And the mint I planted, well, people say you can’t kill mint, but I did. So a reverse achievement of sorts?

Anyhow, this is the progress of these smaller plants so far. I’ll maybe do this garden posting as a regular weekly thing.

For some reason, I feel nostalgic about these New York brownstone apartments even though I’ve never been to New York.