Meanwhile, I Keep Dancing

I refuse to accept it as a weed. I don't like my lawn completely green and nicely clipped, like a Marine's haircut. I like it wild, with long grass and sprouting little burst of joy every which way! Yes, the dandelion my friends! Its name comes from medieval latin,  Dents Lioness, which translates to "tooth of the lion." True, not the most beautiful of flowers, and it is not coveted by flower enthusiasts or collected or sold for great amounts of money. I'll tell you what though, here is a list of things you can do with a dandelion: - Make dandelion wine from the flower - Eat the young leaves in a salad - Make a crown or necklace - Wish on the seeds - Roots can make a non-caffeinated like coffee substitute.  They are also high in calcium, potassium, vitamin A and C, and they are useful as a diuretic and for treating urinary tract infections . Take that, orchids! And they are hardy little guys. Between the cracks of humanity's empires they have wedged th...

The word that you are thinking this represents is not so easily deduced. :-) I love words, so picking one was a struggle. I've always liked whimsy, but I overuse it. I was looking through Google at "beautiful words" waiting for one to strike me and give me an idea. But none of them seemed quite right. Then I remembered this one word, which a good friend, who I love dearly, once tricked me into believing meant something else. The word was afton , and he told me that it was the softy, dreamy fuzz seeds that puff off of a dandelion. This description I fell in love with. Sadly, Afton actually is the name of a river in Scotland, which is nice, but does not live up to the romantic attachment I had with the first definition. And why am I picking a word that I'm changing the definition to? Because afton will always mean dandelion wishes to me.  P.S. Dandelions are my favorite flower