In the keeping of marimos, you will occasionally have accidents. Whether, the marimo ball was accidentally dropped during the process of care or the ball split on it’s own during the process of growth. Here is a no frill approach to repairing a marimo ball.
First, you need to get all the supplies together. You’ll need the marimo in question, some string, and a pair of sharp scissors.
Second, take the marimo and prod the split back together. So, that the crack is sealed over. Cut a long piece of string for wrapping and tie in around the marimo ball.
Start the wrapping by going the opposite of the first loop. When you reached to the other end, wrap around the string a couple of times. When you reach the top, repeat the same action, until the wrapping resembles a pumpkin.
Wash the marimo thoroughly, so that it can begin the healing process. Also, wash the container the marimo is in.
Put the marimo back into the jar, and fill it with clean cool water. It is imperative, that the water is cool and clean until the crack seals. While, it is healing you might notice the water had turn green that is just the primordial ooze that the marimo releases to speed the healing. If that is happening, let your marimo sit in the green water for a couple of day.
Care instructions for a healing marimo remains the same, change water every few days to a week. Wash the marimo thoroughly every two weeks to a month.
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground: And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.
gemini: walt whitman
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)
cancer: pablo neruda
But wait for me, keep for me your sweetness. I will give you too a rose.
leo: charles bukowski
attend the boxing matches, go to the racetrack, live on luck and skill, get alone, get alone often, and if you can’t sleep alone be careful of the words you speak in your sleep; and ask for no mercy no miracles;
virgo: mary oliver
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
libra: e.e. cummings
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)
scorpio: sylvia plath
I wait and ache. I think I am healing.
sagittarius: emily dickinson
I dwell in possibility.
capricorn: edgar allen poe
Ah, dream too bright to last! Ah, starry Hope, that didst arise But to be overcast! A voice from out the Future cries, “On! on!“—but o'er the Past
aquarius: langston hughes
Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly.
pisces: jack kerouac
This transcendental Brilliance Is the better part (of Nothingness I sing)
