So now I have no problems . In fact , everything is getting better . I got a job at pizza hut , and it looks like the school paper hired me as their cartoonist as well , so basically everything 's okay now .

A: What may be an invalid reason I am feeling better now ?

Also , the clinic director called to let me know there was a big water vase of plant clippings on top of the fridge that were for me . They are clippings from plants she had way back in the late 1990s when she was just growing her business , and she wanted me to have them so I could have a similar experience of growth ... very sweet . I ended up seat - belting the vase so it would n't spill , ahahahaa .

A: Why would someone put a seat belt on a vase ?

I got up before 6 am , fed the cats , turned on the computer and paid a bill . I updated stuff just a little and then started getting ready for work . I left the house at 7:32am and got in a line of cars on 132nd Ave SE . There was the usual bottleneck through the Coal Creek construction and then smoother going after getting onto the part of Coal Creek that is already two lanes in each direction .

A: What is the narrator 's purpose in writing ?

Della and I spent a great deal of our youth in the woods . Weekends " in the country " which equals at family property in Kent . Also Summers in Haines Alaska for a decade . The smell of earth and ferns and damp is the same .

A:
Why does the narrator get nostalgic by ferns ?