“Let the essays be short so the days can be long.” That line hit me. There’s such quiet strength in this whole piece. Thank you for sharing the beauty, the tension, the reality… and the dandelions!
Living in Colorado for 17 years, I well remember the State trying to keep jeeps and bikes and all vehicles out of the wilderness where they race thru the mud and mountains, not caring about the wildlife or the land that will erode thru their paths and tracks when the rains come and the snows melt...the sacred silence of a forest while listening for the birds or a deer passing by or coming towards you as you sit by a clear stream as it calms you with its lull of the water against the rocks and bank. The rare sighting of a wild sheep on the mountainside that will run with the sound of the motors and rambling vehicles not noticing the beauty of the flowers, the silence of the mountains, the gently running stream.....turning up their radios for their selfish pleasure. Nature is a great gift. She needs to have more respect.
Beautifully said. I relate deeply to the tension between what's invasive and what's inevitable. Thanks for this lovely reminder to keep planting flowers, even if we can't stop everything else from taking root.
“Let the essays be short so the days can be long.” That line hit me. There’s such quiet strength in this whole piece. Thank you for sharing the beauty, the tension, the reality… and the dandelions!
💛 appreciate this
Living in Colorado for 17 years, I well remember the State trying to keep jeeps and bikes and all vehicles out of the wilderness where they race thru the mud and mountains, not caring about the wildlife or the land that will erode thru their paths and tracks when the rains come and the snows melt...the sacred silence of a forest while listening for the birds or a deer passing by or coming towards you as you sit by a clear stream as it calms you with its lull of the water against the rocks and bank. The rare sighting of a wild sheep on the mountainside that will run with the sound of the motors and rambling vehicles not noticing the beauty of the flowers, the silence of the mountains, the gently running stream.....turning up their radios for their selfish pleasure. Nature is a great gift. She needs to have more respect.
Sacred silence 🙌🏼
Absolutely....
Wild. I never thought about eating a dandelion.
A plentiful resource it turns out
My grandmother made dandelion salads with their young green leaves. She added onions and bacon and vinegar. Always quite good as I recall.
Beautifully said. I relate deeply to the tension between what's invasive and what's inevitable. Thanks for this lovely reminder to keep planting flowers, even if we can't stop everything else from taking root.