[split] "Some people eat animals, some don't."

[Monica]

They said themselves they gave it to inspire and that realizing that one doesn't understand is necessary for harvest to Fourth positive. I wasn't 'raised mainstream', I was just raised with a respect and gratitude for sustenance and it seems you only want to sidestep my philosophy.

You seem to be making this personal. It isn't personal to me at all. Why would I want to 'sidestep your philosophy'? That makes No sense to me at all. We're simply having a discussion and exchanging ideas.

That is fine, I've realized that really the catalyst here for me is that I need to accept you as you are without wanting to change you and I think I do now.

Ok I'm glad to hear you are resolving whatever issues are being triggered for you. For the record, you haven't triggered any issues for me at all.

I will, however, offer a theory as to our differences in experience and I would relate it to the way we each 'crystallize' differently. You enable your plants to have such an experience through your offerings and these are thoughts worth considering as I see myself administering to perhaps a different level or aspect of plants than you. Will consider further.

Well, if that were the case, then that would mean they'd be even more individuated and even less likely to want me to pluck them from the garden.

But the opposite is true: They grow even more prolifically the more I pick them. And this is true of the wild weeds too.

Here's an example: Awhile back, I got stung by a spider. (I picked up my cat and hugged him, and there was a spider clinging to his fur, who stung me, likely out of fear from being smooshed against my face.) So I searched my front yard for plantain (a remedy for spider bites).

I walked all around my front yard, and didn't see any plantain at all. I looked and looked and looked!

Finally, I was about to give up when I spotted a single, lone plantain plant! I gratefully harvested some of its leaves to make a poultice.

The next day, there were at least 20 plantain plants in my small front yard! All within plain sight! They were impossible to miss!

Not tiny seedlings that sprouted overnight, but large, mature plants!! (Each mature plant had both large and small leaves.)

Where did they come from?

What was even more interesting was they I didn't even need all those plantain leaves. I only needed a couple of leaves per day to treat the spider bite, for just a few days. I certainly didn't need 20 large plants!

Young plantain leaves are wonderful salad greens, incidentally.

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