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The Official Military Brat Flower
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The Dandelion
She will blow and blow
But will never know
Where the little dandelion will go
Where the little dandelion will grow.
The wind takes it high
The wind takes it low
But still she will never know
Where the little dandelion will go
Where the little dandelion will grow.
By, Chelsea |
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The History of the Dandelion as the "Official Military Brat Flower"
The Following Discussion Occurred on the Newsgroup "alt.culture.military-brats"
As
the cook in our family, and (modestly) the
intellectual (okay, semi-intellectual) I naturally
read whatever John horne
<http:\\www.outlawcook.com>writes. John, an
army brat escaped to Maine, where he writes books
about cooking and food (Outlaw Cook, Simple Cooking,
Serious Pig) and issues a newsletter which mixes
eating and cooking with thinking and life in general,
not unlike the genre of M.F.K. Fischer (wonderful
writer, though not a brat) mixed in with a bit of
Prairie Home Companion. In his most recent
newsletter, he writes, in the context of "a
meditation on the interconnection between hunger and
character and the unexpected ways in which this can
be passed from father and son," as follows...
"All
this [ie, his parents becoming rooted after his dad
retires] was
alien to me. Unlike them, I had grown up an army
brat, moving somewhere new every few years, my roots
floating in hydroponic solution. As an adult, it's
only during those rare times that I happen onto an
army base that I feel, and then with great
ambivalence, that burst of recognition - half pang,
half joy - that one feels before a long relinquished
childhood home."
I like the
notion of hydroponic roots, don't you? Whatever the
official plant of the Military Brats Newsgroup might
be (Wandering Jew leaps to mind) it is certainly
grown hydroponically. Harmon
Apropos of
something or other: During the recent discussion about an
official Saint of Brats, the Flying Dutchman kept coming
to my mind. I never mentioned the fable because who knows
if he was a Brat or not. Now comes an official plant.
Maybe the Dutchman wasn't a plant but he certainly had to
keep traveling. Another plant to consider might be the
Hydrilla (?). Its appreciated in some places, roundly
cursed in others, and is certainly migrating around the
world. Bill Van Houten (USA Ret)
How
about the dandelion? The plant puts down roots
almost anywhere. It is almost impossible to get
rid off. It is entirely useable except for the
little puffball thingy. An unpretentious plant,
yet good looking (except for the habit of being
where you least expect it.) It's a survivor in a
broad range of climates. And even where those who
are so inclined would apply poisons, they have to
do it one plant at a time season after season.
This just illustrates my motto which is
"bloom where you're planted" Anne
Hey! Those
puffballs are useful. They're for making wishes on.
Wishes are very important things, like thoughts and
dreams they're hard to take away from a person, but once
you do that person is pretty well crush - you might as
well have dropped a piano on them. Katie
Yes! You can learn
something new. I had never imagined that the seed balls
of dandelions could be useful. I have played with the
darned things myself. I have watched my children play
with the things. It just plain never dawned on me that
that was a useful function. The kids and myself had a
blast too! And using them for wishing! I was stuck in the
days when it took a daisy or some other such petalled
flower to do that. Remember? "She loves me, she
loves me not?" This one is still current. I caught
my son pulling petals when he was eight. The little girl
down the street was doing the same thing. Petal flowers
are good for love prediction, but the dandelion wish is
unlimited- any subject will work! Mari Kay
I have to agree.
When the topic first came up, I was thinking about kudzu
but it has such a negative image. So too, did the
dandelion, I thought, until I considered Anne's
persuasive argument and other's additions to it. Maybe we
should get Op Foot locker and other folks to set up some
kind of formal adoption of the dandelion, and create a
nice insignia to represent it. That way we could begin to
make our fraternal organization a little more organized.
Maybe even add a motto "Carpe Dandilionus" or
something! <g> Susan
Yikes! This
thing is taking off, kinda like, ...oh, I don't
know...A DANDELION!!! Or a Military Brat. Give a
brat an idea and WHAM! It goes! Okay. Who, among
us, is a graphic designer? And Marc & Gene,
you guys are organizing things, what should we do
next?
The last time I saw
this sort of thing happen was on the AOL brats forum and
we wound up with the Footlocker. Harmon
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