Minerva’s Promise for 2021

Confessions of an indoor gardener

Aikya Param
3 min readMay 4, 2021

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Stages in the growth of a Minerva amaryllis bulb. From The Official Blog of Jackson and Perkins.

My late Choctaw friend had such a gift for growing things that once a year she gave away dozens of plants. She offered me my pick and I selected the most beautiful flower I had ever seen growing indoors. To my amazement, she gave it to me!

It is a Being with a powerful presence. I’m never sure it will bloom again when one year’s…

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Aikya Param
Swing Wide the Gate

Rev. Aikya Param is a minister at Oakland Center for Spiritual Living in Oakland, California, a published author and visual artist.