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Season 4 - Episode 199 - Beliefs about the dandelion · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happened to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey, everybody. Good morning.
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  So I want to tell you a little story.
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  I was driving back from dropping my son off at his apprenticeship
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  and I was stuck at a light and it was a really long light and
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  it was very early in the morning.
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  It was 63635 in the morning because I have to leave now
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  earlier to drop him off now that and it's important to recognize
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  it's early. So I'm sitting at this light and
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  I look over and there's this house and there's a man on the
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  lawn sitting on the lawn with tools and in the grass.
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  And he's digging out weeds out of his lawn in the front.
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  And the house is beautiful and the lawn is beautiful and
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  everything is perfectly manicured.
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  And he's digging out what he would deem as a weed.
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  And I realized when I look at the pile that he's throwing off
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  to the side, that he's digging out dandelions.
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  And I get like this, like, I want to jump out of the car and
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  I want to run over. And I want to say to him, I know
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  that you don't want the dandelions in your lawn, but you
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  do know that they feed things like they feed the bees and they
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  feed the, the bugs that come to them, the pollinators that
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  desperately need to have them. But of course, I don't do that
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  because that would be rude. So I'm there and I'm like, I'm
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  just mulling it over. The light changes and I drive
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  home and the whole way I'm thinking about the fact that I
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  saw this, that I, I, I see this and then I start thinking about
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  how plants are so misunderstood. Just like people, right?
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  They look at, we look at each other and we often see things in
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  people and we think this is a problem or that is a problem
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  because it's a problem for us. But is, is it good for someone
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  else? Like someone being super chill
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  and super relaxed might not be great for one person, but it
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  might be perfect for another person.
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  And I start thinking about how I wonder how dandelions got such a
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  bad rap in the lawn when to me finding them is a little
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  treasure. And I truly mean that.
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  Like I intend to plant a lot of dandelions.
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  I get very freaked out when we even have to mow if I didn't get
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  a rash from the main grass that grows up here and it gives me a
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  rash around my ankles when it goes to seed.
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  If I didn't get that and had to mow, I would probably just just
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  let the whole thing go to dandelions.
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  However, we we end up having to do it.
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  I hate it, but we try to do it as like few times as we can in
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  the spring especially. But I've been thinking about
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  like, you know, how can I cultivate them?
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  What if I just planted an entire row of dandelions?
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  What if it was just I planted a circle of them and they were
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  able to do their thing? And then my brain got very
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  excited and I was like, well, holy cow, if we did that, we'd
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  be surrounded by wishes. And I started laughing and I
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  thought, because, you know, you take a dandy line off and you
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  blow the seeds out into the wind and it's 1,000,000 wishes going
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  everywhere, right? And I started thinking about how
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  everyone has their own point of view with these and how the poor
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  flower is just, or the poor plant is just, you know, a plant
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  doing its thing, sitting in the ground.
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  And some people say you're a nuisance and other people say
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  you're a blessing. And the plant doesn't give a
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  crap. It just keeps doing what it
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  does. And if you dig it up, they
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  usually come back and they're resilient.
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  And boy, do we need to be more in like the dandelion.
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  Because when people start saying things about us, we need to be
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  able to move beyond it and not let it get to us.
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  We need to be more resilient about picking things up.
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  We need to be filled with our wishes.
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  We need to be bright and sunny looking.
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  We need to be sturdy and strong. So many cool lessons from this
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  little tiny dandelion. And it just made me laugh.
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  It's very similar to roses. You know, recently I started
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  getting into growing roses and how we get this beautiful
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  flower. But we also have the thorn and
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  it's, you know, the roses way of protecting itself.
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  And it's just nature is endlessly fascinating with the
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  lessons it can teach us. But back to the dandelion.
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  So I, I came home and I really started thinking about how well,
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  I wonder what other properties of dandelions that we don't know
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  about. And then I looked it up and how
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  there's research being done, because there's cancer studies
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  being done with how dandelion root can cure things and
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  illnesses. And, and if you study the old
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  school, like high, all the old papers that came out of the
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  early 16th, 17th century about plants, you realize how much
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  they used them for medicinal purposes and apothecaries and
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  everything else. And these people, the botanists
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  were so great at trying things and pulling from them.
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  And the dandelion was a root that was used incredibly for
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  that, for Wellness. So it wasn't just take a pill,
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  it was look around you and see what other things can work for
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  you. So that ended up making me get
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  into a course that I'm starting to take about these, the lost
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  art of plants and Wellness. So which is going to create a
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  whole different garden and a whole different outlook of how
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  I'm doing certain herbs on the farm.
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  So my point is one man sitting on a lawn digging out a little
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  tiny dandelion root. That really pissed me off, I
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  have to admit, when it happened and I did want to get out of the
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  car, but I stopped and I didn't and it came back and look at all
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  the greatness it created. So my irritation, I flipped it
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  around and now I get to see what I can do with it.
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  And now you'll probably never look at a dandelion the same
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  again. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.