A Journey

I do not know the type of Cactus this is.  I just know the journey that it took to get to me. 

My Uncle took a piece of this cactus home from Oklahoma.  It was planted in his yard in Terry, MS and that yard became my moms’ yard.  I had seen it bloom a handful of times and I loved it.  It took a piece to my dads and it grew there.  After I moved to Texas I visited my dad and took a piece of it back with me in my luggage on a flight.  I planted it in a pot… and when I bought my house it finally was planted in the ground.

It came to Texas in 2013… and I planted it at my home in 2018.   This was the first year it bloomed; I love it.

The Kangaroo

 

Back in 2010; my mother went through a trauma.   She lost her leg. 

We were chatting in the hospital and she said she had to hop around now.  She wasn’t looking forward to it.  I said she would have kangaroo as her new spirit animal.

This got me a look that would have killed me dead. 

I explained;  The kangaroo can only hop forward… they can’t go backwards.  That is what she has to do; move forward… and she would not do it alone.  Later, I drew this design for her similar to my frog tattoo.  

She has been gone 7 years.   When I see this image… it reminds me to move forward… and forever the kangaroo reminds me of my mom.