Lucky Clovers
Mood:  lucky
Topic: Daily Eruptions
Soon after we moved into the new house and Hans came home from Seattle, Sudie had a commission for a drawing that included a clover blossom. I went online to find her photos to work from and then when I was out walking Kaija after work, I started looking at the clover patches around the neighborhood. Without even trying very hard, I found 4 four-leaf clovers! I brought them home and put them in a teacup of water on the kitchen counter.

It occurred to me, partly because things with Hans still looked so bleak and unhappy, that that was a very hopeful act. I considered making it a goal to always have a four-leaf clover in that teacup, but dismissed the thought, deciding it was unreasonable.

Ever since, though, the cup has had at least one 4-leaf clover living in it. One even grew roots and I determined to plant it in a pot so I could perhaps grow my own lucky clovers, but I think I waited too long and the roots have atrophied. Still, there are 6 four-leaf clovers and 1 five-leaf clover--what does that mean??--in the teacup downstairs. Hans suggested when I brought the five-leaf home that this place must have been exposed to radiation fallout, which I had already considered but decided not to think about. Afterall, I don't think this place is a twin cluster site the way our neighborhood in Wake Forest was! (Including my nieces, I can think of four families with twins in our old subdivision without even trying.)

I don't know how long the clovers will continue to grow--do they die in the winter?--but I think they'll make an interesting story element somewhere down the road. I just have to make sure that I don't make keeping them in the house into a compulsion ;) ! From what I've read, I currently see myself as having some obsessive behaviors, but no real compulsions (we're conveniently ignoring the fact that I have called myself a compulsive overeater), and I don't need to develop any.

So, if I interpret my heads-up, heads-down pairs of pennies as meaning that I choose my own luck, what does finding multiple four-leaf clovers in my neighborhood every other evening mean? I think it means I find my luck in places no one else thinks to look.