On, In, and Around Mondays: Eating the Simple

They got a $157,000 grant to study dandelions.

But long before this, my mother taught us to eat the greens.

Sometimes we eat the flowers too, tickly as they are, because there's a lovely sweetness inside the tickle. Cut open the stems or leaves, and you've got a free remedy for skin conditions. The roots are said to taste like coffee, and that's where the $157,000 tea is being brewed... from knobbly-looking roots.

How many times have you dug those roots up and tossed them in the compost pile? Every root an astonishing elixir against cancer.

I am reminded again of the power of simple things. Common things. Unexpected things. The sweetness of a sunshine tickle, just outside the door.

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