Vain

Who doesn't hear the words to Carly Simons song, "You're so vain, you think this song is about you don't you?", when you see or hear the word vain?

I am hear today, almost 1 year since my last post to talk about the word VAIN.

What is vain? The Merriam-Webster dictionary says:
1: having no real value : idle, worthless 2: marked by futility or ineffectualness : unsuccessful, useless 3archaic : foolish, silly4: having or showing undue or excessive pride in one's appearance or achievements

With that said I want to talk about what I see as vain.

What has no real value in our world?
This thing that has no real value also causes excessive pride in one's appearance, this also leads to something else, people acting silly and foolish about this one thing.

Are you thinking about it? What is this thing? Do you know? I bet you have one, I know I do.

A lawn of green grass.

That is right a lawn of grass is vain. People have idol worship of their lawn and get all geeky and freaked out if you mess it up. They spend thousands on chemicals that kill all living organisms and "weeds" (aka, wild flowers) to prevent their lawn from looking anything less than perfect. You can't walk on it, play on it, it is just for show. People come by and say, "oh Bill what a nice lawn, looks so much better than anyone elses on the block, so green and manicured"

That same acre of useless green lawn space could be used to feed the block. The grass can't even reach it's full God given right to fullfill it's purpose of feeding wild life with it's seed, city ordinaces say we must chop it off, and the devil himself Home Associations say you must keep it at a certain legnth.

How did such a sin get over looked by the people that thump their bibles every Wednesday and Sunday?

Yes, folks, a sin. Vainty is a sin. Green lawns that serve no purpose but to be useless pads to soak up your chemical conncotions and kill off the Earth from your chemical run off, is a sin.

Think about that the next time you call Scotts out to spray your lawn, your perfect green useless lawn and your ego swells from foolish pride of a lot of green that you did nothing to enrich the lives around you. Think about that sin of Vanity you commit every single day.

Think about now how to stop this foolishness and pride.

Grow food!

Salad, turnips, parsnips, watermeleon, green beans and fruits!

Oh think of the things you could grow and the people that would be happy to eat it and the pride from real work on something doing real good. Stop the poison.
Stop the green lawns.

GROW FOOD!