Mystery Plant:
Weed, Flower, Tree?

A mystery plant has appeared in our rain garden. I am not sure if it is a weed, flower or tree and where it came from. It must be what is called a ‘volunteer’ plant, someone that just flew it and seeded itself. But it sure is big. Do you know what it is?

Living life in the present and awake is full of mysteries. Everything is new and a source of wonder. One needs to move slow, be prepared, yet open to the unexpected. Like the mystery plant one cannot always know what every experience means but just accept it and go with it.

Tonight I called a couple ill friends. I suspected they might need my driving services and both did. They probably would not have called me, thinking they were a burden, but when I called them, as I felt I needed to, they did ask for help getting places.

As I was driving friends the last few days on the highway to Madison and Oak Creek and back I noticed lots of construction on roads going on. This is also true for city roads. I guess it is the ‘stimulus’ money creating jobs.

However, for a country trying to get out of our dependence on oil, 20 million gallons a day consumed, it makes little sense to create bigger and better highways and roads for more and more cars using more and more oil. Poor and ill people usually do not drive cars so all this highway spending does not really benefit them.

At the same time we build more roads for more cars and more oil used, we lack the infrastructure for a mass transportation system in this area for buses and trains that would allow more people to get around without cars and oil.

We live in a society that talks less dependence on oil, yet spends more money to be dependent on oil. Now that, like this new large plant, is a mystery.

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