This week’s photo is two in one. A double exposure of a branch of ivy growing along my kitchen wall, layered with an image of a growth chart left behind by the family who lived here before us, just behind our basement door.

I impulsively thrifted him from Jeffrey’s Antiques years ago, drawn to his mixture of adorable, awkward, and odd features:

If it felt anything, it might have been longing for the other side, the same longing I’ve felt at different points in my life.

Spring is the season of birth and the soil is where it starts.