It's a Dandy World...or is it?

It is weird how things that are common place all of a sudden become popular! For instance, the Dandelion. When I was a child I love blowing Dandelion seeds all over the place, or tickling a sibling with them. Like all weeds are to children, I thought that it was pure beauty. In time we are taught that weeds are are not beauty. It happens in a million different ways. A "bouquet" of beautiful weeds that gets put outside instead of proudly displayed, witnessing or even being asked to help your mother pull all of the wonderful weeds out from her garden of vegetables (which, by the way, are not nearly as pretty), to witnessing obsessions with getting rid of weeds off of lawns. It happens in a million different ways but the end result is the same. Most of us, by the time we are adults, believe that weeds are nothing but a pain in the butt.

When I was a child I was dead set on loving weeds. I would not pull them, I would "transplant" them to a place where they were allowed to live. I would pick them, bugs and all, and proudly display vases all over our house (until they were found and thrown out). I really did love them. I REALLY loved the Dandelion full of seeds, but oddly enough, my mother didn't like it in her house. However, as a parent, I don't love vacuuming up seeds that have been used to tickle a sibling or blown all over the house and through time....I have become a weed hater :( It has turned out that my mother the world has passed her its dismay to me. I noticed this one day when I drove up to my house and saw all the dandelions and wondered if I should "weed and feed" my lawn while my son mentioned out loud that he thought we had a beautiful lawn, if we could just get rid of the grass and somehow grow more dandelions. Its a funny little world we live in where perspectives can change on a dime.

Back to my original point though - all of a sudden, Dandelions ready to seed are EVERYWHERE. They are used to get the message of sayings across....

They are used to adorn walls....

In all, they are celebrated....

In fact, Dandelions are everywhere these days, it almost makes me not like them for the simple reason that they are too popular! That was, until I cam across this photo, the first one that I posted on this entry...

I talked a while ago about how I have been challenged as to what this blog is supposed to inspire me to feel when I talked about a kids movie that inspires me to cry. Although the dandelion is over used this picture inspires me to feel exactly how I feel. Like I'm drowning, like something that is not supposed to happen is happening and I'm falling apart and that I am helpless but in the midst of it, there is beauty. 

....I had written some other stuff here but I am going to erase it because it got super real, super fast. I am going to leave it at that I guess.