Recently I accidentally left a few of my strawberry plants un-watered for months. I was ready to give them up as lost and gone until my upstairs neighbor took a look and found a couple healthy shoots amid the crusty, withered growth. “Clip off all the dead bits and start watering again,” she advised. Fast forward one month and the plants are green, full and heartier than ever. While I’m no evolutionary biologist, I have to wonder if the months of drought weeded out the weaker sprouts, leaving only the most resilient in my pots.
The kitten in this story is like those resilient sprouts—determined life in the face of death.
