It’s a (triple) date…
The plant I can't escape and others I have needed this week.
A triple date! Or a Phoenix dactylifera, a plant that in a weird bout of botanical serendipity has cropped up thrice this week.
The first was a haunting Instagram post that was doing the rounds. It was a photo of a hand buried in the rubble in Gaza, belonging to a man killed in an airstrike in Gaza. From the dusty hand, two fragile leaves emerged, leaves…
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