{"id":2359,"date":"2015-09-06T21:40:10","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T12:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/?p=2359"},"modified":"2015-09-06T22:03:21","modified_gmt":"2015-09-06T13:03:21","slug":"we-are-stardust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/06\/we-are-stardust\/","title":{"rendered":"We are stardust"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\"150905_tamasudare_600\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We are stardust. We are golden. . . . <\/em>Who would dare argue with that?<\/p>\n

One reason I like flowers so much is that\u00a0I can look into their hearts and see the stardust—and\u00a0see<\/em> how it energizes them.<\/p>\n

\"150905_blue_flowers_600\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Saturday was a good day for a bicycle ride. A good day for flowers. And I had a tune in my head. By this folk duo here in Shizuoka. About a sweet, sweet girl who likes to braid flowers into her hair. Part of it goes\u00a0like this:<\/p>\n

Her mother went on, \u201cYou\u2019re an upright guy,<\/em><\/p>\n

Swim team captain\u2014never make your momma sigh<\/em><\/p>\n

You make good grades, a future\u2019s in your cards<\/em><\/p>\n

On Saturdays, you mow the front yard.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"150905_four_bluishflowers_600\"<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

So tell me are her politics now turning red<\/em><\/p>\n

Does she wish all the capitalists soon to be dead.<\/em><\/p>\n

Does she wanna marry some North Vietnamese?<\/em><\/p>\n

Is she dangling from a hallucinogenic trapeze?”<\/em><\/p>\n

\"150915_white_lavender_flower_600\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Well, all I knew of her was what I saw<\/em><\/p>\n

She watered her garden, loved it all.<\/em><\/p>\n

At my bedroom window I stood and spied<\/em><\/p>\n

When she hoed those rows\u2014I thought I might die.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"150905_blue_gold_flower_600\"<\/a><\/p>\n

She was long and lean and mighty strong<\/em><\/p>\n

Those cucumbers had her singing a song<\/em><\/p>\n

At times like that I\u2019d wanna ask her to dance,<\/em><\/p>\n

But she was older, I knew I had no chance.<\/em><\/p>\n

She weeded and sweated and smiled in the sun,<\/em><\/p>\n

Kissed the growing melons when the day was done.<\/em><\/p>\n

So why on earth would anybody care<\/em><\/p>\n

If she chose to braid flowers into her hair?<\/em><\/p>\n

Hey, what about me? Am I a star yet?\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

\"150905_orange_flower_600\"<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

My dear, dear child! You always have been!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 We are stardust. We are golden. . . . Who would dare argue with that? One reason I like flowers so much is that\u00a0I can look into their hearts and see the stardust—and\u00a0see how it energizes them. Saturday was a good day for a bicycle ride. A good day for flowers. And I had … Continue reading We are stardust<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2359"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2371,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions\/2371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}