Yarrow Meditation
Between walks I have been looking for yarrow. Before the coin method, yarrow stalks were used to throw the I Ching. I have never tried it before. Perhaps if I find some? I read it is plentiful so I went out looking. This lead me to other common wildflowers. I started identifying them. Goldenrod, pokeweed, virginia creeper, mullein, queen anne’s lace, oriental bittersweet, multiflora rose, wild grapes. Only the first three are native to this region. Everything else is abundant and invasive. I took up a quiet conversation about native verses non-native and wonder where we figure in. If we are separate as the humanist believes, at the top of the hierarchy that gets to name and order the others, study and draw and classify the others, actively eradicate one and promote the other, but in our own domain promote ourselves and eradicate the other, what hypocrisy! How can we know these things about our world and not apply them to ourselves? Willful ignorance, a built-in defense. Invasive
