How Getting a Houseplant Helped with My Divorce

When my plants thrived, the weight of my own grief began to lift

Photo by Erol Ahmed on Unsplash

Two months after my wife left me, I found the baby palm tree.

Biking home from the açai bowl restaurant where I work during the day, I had been mentally bracing myself for the too-familiar emptiness of the apartment when I saw the little guy. Its…