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Is it trash or is it treasure? Whatever it is we’re looking at, it’s all in HOW we look at it. ln WHO looks at it. It’s all in the perspective from which we look. As we know, beauty is in the eye of the beholder!
The word “trash” and “treasure” can be interchanged with a lot of different words…. dream/nightmare and beauty/ugliness being some of them!
A huge stretch of dandelions is an absolute, GLORIOUS dream come true to a five year old — she calls them sunflowers and she LOVES them! But that same stretch of dandelions is my man’s nightmare! (don’t tell, but I tend to side with the five year old! 🙂 )
I think this nightmare might have come from his sweet mother. Every spring and summer she would get on her hands and knees in her yard in town and scour every inch to dig every dandelion, roots and all, out of her lawn. Even into her 80’s! I’m not complaining, I loved her dearly! 🙂
Come spring, we OFTEN have this little vase full of “sunflowers” sitting on the table!
Another little bit of info….. Dandelions have a multitude of nutritional and medicinal value! Keep that in mind if you’re ever starving…or actually, instead of waiting ’til you’re desperate, you could start eating them right now!
Trash or Treasure? Roly-Polies
Another one? Roly-Polies-also known as Pill Bugs, are another very controversial item! Depending on who you ask, they can be GREAT fun, or they can be a PEST!! As kids we spent hours playing outside with Roly-Polies. Watching them crawl all over… but touch them, and BOOM! They roll up into a perfect ball, ready to be sent rolling across the yard like tiny bowling balls!
The nightmare part comes when you are a farmer, and you realize that 1/2 your field of soybeans has been eaten away by millions of these tiny creatures! That does indeed take the fun out of them right quick!
And while SOME Roly-Polies in the soil are a good thing, you know the saying….”Moderation in all things!”
SO, it becomes a full out war to get rid of the destructive little buggers!
Trash vs. Treasure: Antiques.
Another example of trash vs. treasure, is antiques. Think old trunks, dishes, furniture….even old dilapidated farm houses in a field somewhere…… I LOVE old things! My man does NOT!
I love to look at them, and think about what the very first person who had it felt when they got it, made it, lived in it, or built it. To think about their dreams and such. That sounds a bit mushy, but….I love it!
I even like to look at the trash heaps they left behind!
My little friend and I have just read most of the Little House on the Prairie books. If you would like to enjoy them again, and feed your love for the “old things,” you can get the whole Little House set here! (paid link) I know there are several museum’s of some of the Ingalls’ and Wilders’ homes and possessions. We’ve never been, but SOMEDAY, I would love to leave my man in the car and go wander through them!
And yes, in case you are wondering, there are compromises made. Nightmare or not, that tree row full of dandelions is still there! And that antique dresser? It was a birthday gift from my man before we were even married, and it’s still in our guest room! 🙂
Well, that’s all she wrote….
Glad you came, and thanks for listening! Before you go, tell us, what are your treasures?
Good Thoughts
“Sometimes one man’s trash isn’t another man’s treasure…sometimes it’s just trash.” – Anon
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