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Common Plantain "White Man's Footprint" Vintage Illustration. Crush the leaves and sooth an insect sting. I had read Braiding Sweetgrass once before I chose it for my little bookclub and admired Kimmerer's weaving of Indigenous wisdom and knowledge with contemporary botany and life in general. Upon reading it a second time, with a growing interest in native wildflower gardening, it made me wonder how we can incorporate more of the natural world into urban and suburban dwellin

Welcome to Sandy Suitcase's first Classics Book club blog, starring Dandelion Wine (1957) by Ray Bradbury. I chose Dandelion Wine partly from mid-winter nostalgia for my own summers, plus I love early 20th century American history, but that's for another time. Dandelion Wine is about much more than dandelions, but in keeping with the dandelion theme, let me share this passage, "They run around. I let them. Pride of lions in the yard. Stare, and they burn a hole in your ret