They’re usually the days when you’re stuck at your computer from morning till night. Or otherwise stuck indoors, feeling unable — if only for one day — to unfurl your leaves and grow toward your potential.

They’re the kind of days when you don’t necessarily wish you didn’t have roots, but you do wish your roots had just a bit more space. Some room to stretch out and grow. Some rain-fed soil and a starry sky above that just whispers, “Reach for me. All of me. With all of you.”

So make a promise, silly as it sounds. Today you will not be a houseplant. Sink your roots deep into the fragrant earth, and stretch your limbs to the sky.~ Laura