new growth

[dirtylibrarian]

When I first moved to Seattle, I raised an avocado from a seed and it got to be over a foot tall, but then it died when I was out of town and a friend of my dad's was staying at the place.  I was bummed, and have been trying to get another one going again.  Finally, one of the seeds has taken!

Here are helpful hints on how to do this right.  Last time I missed the step about pinching it back.  I've also read you should do this around 6 inches, which I'm leaning towards for fullness.

Also along the lines of new growth, I feel like I have reached a new plateau in health.  I'm doing a mile when swimming as a regular thing new.  The ankle binding has worked great (I haven't fallen down once since starting it), and I've been running more regularly than ever.  And I've started going to yoga classes every week again.  I feel very energetic and am starting to get that exercise high you hear about.  Its lovely.  Plus, yesterday at the pool I had a good yoga moment, and had a sense of opening in my chest that I don't think I've physically had since I pulled my sternum ten years ago.  The emotional correlation feels great, too.