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I Want To Know If You Love Your Neighbors
Many of us share living space with so many others and their habits
Roaring Rivers
Torrents, Currents, and Ripples by Christyl Rivers, PhD
Living in the burbs and writing blurbs
Do you get along with your neighbors? Have you even met them?
We live in the suburbs for the first time in many years. Our neighbors — who we do not know for the most part — drive us crazy.
We are outliers, and not into conformity. For us, it is utterly unethical to mow your lawn. Yet, we must do it.
We have an HOA and even if it is unenforced, we are pressured to keep the dandelions off our neatly cropped grass.
Dandelions are important for pollinators. They attract the bees and others who depend on bees, (birds, etc.) and they, and other wildflowers, are only hated because we are taught to hate them.
Lawns also use up valuable time we could use to grow food and community. They waste water. They usually require fossil fuels to maintain, and toxins in fertilizers., pesticides, and herbicides.