Dandelion Faith

http://www.midshorelife.com/content/dandelion-faith



I suppose like many people with yards to care for, I’m not a huge fan of dandelions.

Especially for anyone with an idealized vision of having a plush and perfectly manicured lawn, these pesky weeds can be something of a nuisance.

As anyone who has seen my yard can tell you, I’m obviously not obsessed with achieving the perfect lawn. However, I am compelled to drag out the mower whenever I see the grass becoming shaggy with numerous white puffballs and little yellow sunbursts dotting the green.

While I may not like all the dandelions I see blotting the yard, I can’t help but marvel at their quiet, undaunted tenacity. No sooner have I mowed them down than new stems are already sprouting defiantly from the ground—a reminder that, to paraphrase Shakespeare, there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in my yard care philosophy.

That reminder can apply to our other philosophies, religions, and ideologies as well. Often in our attempt to make sense of the universe and our place in it, we trim and prune systems of thought or belief into perfectly shaped orthodoxies that are marred by those pesky cosmic puffballs that are beyond our control or explanation popping up all around them.

Even in a denomination like the one to which I belong (Unitarian Universalism), with its openness to religious and secular pluralism, it’s possible for intellectualism or idealism to shut us off from what Unitarian poet e.e. cummings called the “leaping greenly spirits of trees/and blue true dream of sky; and…everything/which is natural which is infinite which is yes.”

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Everyone else sprays heavily.
I saw a neighbor who follows my technique, and they harvest for wine and salad

These dandy lions are the big leaf tall versions, and
Taste GREAT.

Screw the lawn!

It is the seed of weed. and weeds are spoken of as bad.

There is the story that when cast out of the garden things like weeds were added as difficulties, then their is a comment about weeds being bad when referencing sin also.

That might be part of the reason Gandalf smoked weed. more of it being burned up as the metaphor. I doubt it is about pot.

Although one of the ways pot might have gotten that name, might be from that concept.


No offense to your concepts though.

that help us to see how fucked we are is illegal.

Strange coincidence. :-)

...yeah, I can go along with that. Really more of a bad memetic infection, however. :)

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That is one of my favorite Bloom County cartoons, but I haven't seen it in years.

Thank you for posting it!

I often miss them because you are in forums I seldom visit, but I find so much depth in them.

This part:

"That reminder can apply to our other philosophies, religions, and ideologies as well. Often in our attempt to make sense of the universe and our place in it, we trim and prune systems of thought or belief into perfectly shaped orthodoxies that are marred by those pesky cosmic puffballs that are beyond our control or explanation popping up all around them."

Amazingly said.

I sincerely appreciate this. :hi: