I never dreamt my next blog piece would be about bindweed. Yet, here is what happened:
The very next day after the last post about Glorious Weeds, I happened to open a book on medicinal plants and folk lore. I let the book open randomly; it opened to bindweed.

AHA! Surely, Spirit wants me to find the answer to the mystery!!

What it had to say intrigues me. So I share. Bindweed is used as a laxative and for gall bladder complaints. Mmm.... Well, as I take my curriculum from my garden and environment, I wondered, how am I needing a laxative? How am I bilious? If Bindweed helps to release unneeded toxins, perhaps my unwanted burden is outdated belief systems, patterns, dogmas, self-sabotaging behaviors, self-doubt, fear of the very things my heart says yes to... self-quarantining. Those are all things that get in the way of my ease, my health and sense of well-being.

Yet, my dogmas are buried deep, entrenched so to speak. "Dismantling" them may take time and patience. How, I ask myself am I holding on tight to patterns and ways of thinking? Thinking that I am right? Where do I accept belief systems that are merely undigested dogma and detritus that I am ready to expel? Another question that comes to mind~ Where, in my life, do I unconsciously accept a "norm" that clashes with the voice of my heart?

These are my internal questions these days. These are the questions bindweed is inspiring. These are not answerable today, but since finding that page on bindweed, I am lovingly disentangling it from my other beneficials and listening. Listening deeply and praying to release unwanted and unneeded. Places where I separate myself from any other being creates division that cuts both ways. Today, I listen

Ram Das says so eloquently a question I ask myself again

"Behind the Two is the one,
Will you rest in the two? or will you rest in the one?
Will you complete the circle?
And move from the two into the one
And Then
Dance in the two?
Will you enjoy the dance, the play of the two, of the yin and yang?
Can you enjoy it all?"

I am grateful for this lesson. Perhaps, it will help me connect, yet not suffocate, weave, not bind. engage, not isolate.