Do you have a green thumb?

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My thumb is and always has been brown. We had an elderly neighbor who could throw a dead blade of grass in the yard and the next week, it would be a beautiful flowering bush. Not really, but almost. She did have a talent for growing things, though. I like house plants. Over the years, I would water them, feed them, I even sang to them. Maybe that was my mistake. Hmmmm...... I just never could get them to live. I even killed a snake plant. If you are familiar with those, you know they're pretty hard to kill. My husband does the outside work and has grown many flowers and a few trees over the years. His thumb is definitely greener than mine. But, you see the little green plant in the photo above? I have actually kept it alive for ten months!!! It was part of an arrangement a friend sent to me last October when I had shoulder surgery. The rest of it died, but this little fella refuses to give up! All I do is give it a little water when it wilts and put it near a window. The other day I did add a few coffee grounds (I heard that might help.) So far, so good. I wish I were that tenacious when it comes to overcoming obstacles in life. This little thing is still living and being pretty in the worst of circumstances. There's probably a moral here somewhere. What do you think?