Annelise Jolley is a journalist and essayist who writes about ecology, food, borders, and faith. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Atavist, National Geographic, The Millions, The Sunday Long Read, EcoTheo Review, and Hidden Compass, and has been noted in The Best American Travel Writing 2019. She holds an MFA from Seattle Pacific University. Read more at annelisejolley.com.
Looking at the two stems housed in a water glass on my kitchen table, it strikes me that “in the ground” means opposite things for flowers and people. As long…