I dont know how youd do it. Why dont you just DO it? BRING the butterflies back THIS SUMMER. Just FIGURE it out. And then DO it. You do all the bad stuff without thinking about it beforehand. Do you worry yourself to death before you ship nuclear warheads around the planet? No you do not!!! You just DO it!! I have a list of terrifying potentially catastrophic things that you just do which I compare to the list of good things you ought to do which you just dont. The terrifying things -- you dont drag your feet over those. You dont find that stuff too hard to do. You just do it. And then later you come out and tell us what were paying for it, in money, time, freedom, health, whatever. But the good things you ought to do are always -- too hard for you, youre not certain, you wouldnt know how, you have to be sure, or you have to study it, or maybe its not happening anyway, or maybe its someone elses fault, or maybe it would cost jobs (you dont worry one minute about costing jobs when theres money in it for you, I notice.) Thats at the national level, of course. But on the personal level, do we also have to be so stupid? Have our minds been utterly paralyzed by the rhetoric of that mindset -- the all-powerful on one hand and yet weirdly-powerless on the other hand stance -- that switches from one to the other, depending on what you want from it and WHAT IT WANTS FROM YOU? No, we do not get to use that bullshit up there at that level as a model or an excuse for our bullshit down here at this level. SOME THINGS WE CAN JUST DO if we would JUST DO THEM!!!! Heres one suggestion!! :) :) :) : I dont care who you are. Just do it. Bring the butterflies back. ALL of them. THIS SUMMER. STOP pouring chemicals on your lawns. I know they renamed the chemicals to the word green. They are still chemicals. And you still have chemical lawns. Do your children lie down with their faces in the grass in the summertime and look into the world within the grass -- IF IT IS STILL THERE? You wouldnt want them really to do that right after you had fumigated the grass, though, anyways, would you? Besides, they would kill you first before they went outside to hang out on the lawn. Right? And do you NOT think that your children WOULD SELL YOU to a passing race of space aliens if the price for doing so were a FANCIER DIGITAL DEVICE THAN YOU, their beloved human parents, could ever get for them? And then theres the chance they would get run over by your petrochemical lawn machinery in any case. Oh, dont tell me. I can guess. GOD TOLD YOU THAT GASOLINE-POWERED WEED WHACKERS ARE GOOD. But are they also good to use all day long Sundays? Has there been a study done that ceasing to pour toxins on the vast and vastly increasing area given over to indoor/outdoor carpet-looking bio-engineered lawns would bring back the butterflies? No, there has not. Are you going to do one? No, you are not. You are not going to do a study. And when there is a study anyway, you wont listen to it. So, therefore, the only solution to the dilemma of being your lawn-fixated selves, is to listen to me. And just do it. Just do what it takes to stop making of your lawns all spring and all summer and all fall the obsessively compulsively unreasonably and horrifically uniformly toxic wastelands through the application of store-bought poisons and the use of ear-splitting dumb-ass petrochemical consuming ride-em lawnmowers. There are other aspirations to have for beauty in lawns other than absolutely featureless utterly cloned uniformity. Thats a mindset that did not exist until it existed. Then someone started making chemicals and machines -- and put you to work needing and wanting and buying them. I remember Mr. Smith working on his beautiful lawn on Cushing Street, in Fredonia, when I was very young. I bet Mr. Smith would have been in his eighties then, meaning he had been born well before the turn of the century. Tall, erect, slim, he quietly worked away with his hand-held edger, and pushed his reel mower, and used his time and his attention and his care on his garden and lawn. It was quiet when he worked and it was beautiful to look at, and it is beautiful to now look back and remember him. I havent seen him in probably almost fifty years -- but some people and how they work and what their work does make beautiful portraits in your mind that last forever, coming back to you sometimes only after decades of not once remembering them. Yall could use some of that in your lives. You dont need to waste the planet with your gasoline attacks on what could be beautiful old-fashioned-looking lawns -- and get you outside once in awhile. Youre all smart enough to look up different ways of doing your lawns on the internet. Just DO IT. DO IT to BRING BACK THE BUTTERFLIES, if nothing else.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 17:20:41 +0000
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