by ML Lorey
(Seattle WA)
This would have been the 1970's and I don't have any photos. Back then, it was all the rage to have a plant on your desk at work.
After months of watching and listening to all the plant grooming going on around me I got my own plant on my desk. And I watered it, and talked about it, just like everyone else was doing, and watched it start to grow.
It took awhile, but finally, someone asked me "what are you growing"? And I told her,
WEEDS!
It was the truth. I was growing weeds, and they sure were pretty.