Ek is die peetma van \u2019n roosplantjie. \u2019n Binnenshuise bossie in \u2019n pot hier in die subkantoor. Ook die versorger van my bossie met pienk rose, net s\u00f3 op kantoor, en die onwaarskynlike ma van \u2019n \u201crescue\u201d, soos daar na troeteldiere verwys word wat kort by die dood om- draai en deur suiwer vertroeteling en liefde hul kragte herwin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Verlede jaar kry ek \u2019n potplant geskenk n\u00e1 \u2019n praatjie by \u2019n lees- kring. Die rose, in die diepste ska- kering van pienk denkbaar, is \u2019n liewe, opbeurende blyk van waar- dering. Tog is ek dadelik bekommerd. Ek het nog nie juis naam ge- maak as iemand wat plante laat gedy nie. Inteendeel \u2013 verskeie erg gewaardeerde geskenkplantjies het al onder my sorg tot in die wortel gevrek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dalk is dit di\u00e9 keer anders, dink ek wanneer ek elke nou en dan op pad huis toe na Rosie op die motorsitplek langs my loer asof ons ou vriendinne is. S\u00f3 bring ek toe \u2019n roos uit Bethlehem en gee dit water in Bloemfontein. Totdat ons weens \u2019n nuwe vlaag van die Covid-19-pandemie die kantoor \u2019n hoeveelste keer inderhaas moet ontruim ter wille van inperking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit was, om absoluut eerlik te wees, twee weke voordat ek onthou het dat Rosie nog net daar staan waar ek haar vergeet het. Eensaam in \u2019n verlate kantoor, teen daardie tyd al s\u00f3 verdroog dat geen sorg of vloed van trane haar sou kon red nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gelukkig is daar \u2019n kinkel in hierdie verhaal. Toe Rosie met haar aankoms op kantoor nog fluks geblom het, het ek eendag so \u2019n uitgeblomde rosie afgeknip en sonder seremonie in die vullisdrom van die kantoorkombuis gegooi. Die volgende dag het ek met verbasing gesien dat iemand daardie einste afgeknipte rosie in een van die groot plantpotte, net buite die kombuis, se grond gedruk het. Ai, siestog, het ek gedink, dis nou dierbaar, maar my o\u00eb gerol oor di\u00e9 daad van optimisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nouja. Kom ek s\u00ea maar net dat ek daardie einste afgeknipte takkie, wat wraggies wortel geskiet het, met die grootste bewondering en waardering uit daardie pot gaan haal het toe die stof weer n\u00e1 inperking gaan l\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dankie, Samaritaan, dat jy so onwetend my Rosie vir my bewaar en van uitsterwing gered het. Daarmee saam bly my herinnering aan die praatjie en die gawe vroue van die leeskring in Bethlehem behoue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As dit nou die plek en tyd was vir \u2019n preek, het ek iets kwytgeraak oor kleingelowigheid en optimisme in \u2019n w\u00eareld waarin hoop by die dag al hoe meer kosbaar raak. Nou sal ek maar liewer net volstaan by: Word sterk, my liefste Rosie die Tweede, en blom tog asseblief eendag weer \u2013 Mammie sal ook haar bes doen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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