A dandylion growing through conrete. A symbol that sits deep within me. Not so much in a metaphorical way but more due to me growing up with a very special and still so very close to me children’s programme series called “Löwenzahn” (dandylion). It’s about a man who decides to give up living in an ordinary house and who’s instead building his new home by upcycling an old, blue construction trailer in a garden. One of his motivations for doing that is that he wants to learn more about and understand nature, life, civilization and everything up and down and left and right of his new place of living.
In hindsight “Löwenzahn” was a truly progressive, maybe even “oracular” series for both children and grown-ups: taking away modern trends like “Tiny Houses”, “Recycling and Sustainibility” or simply understanding and living with and within nature again – decades before these were (re-) discovered by society.
What remains is the question: How can it be that (not only) dandylions can drill, push, grow, split, crack through concrete anyhow? Well…I don’t know! And that’s maybe even the most exciting thing about that little obsveration! I bet it has certainly to do with endurance, persistence and generally nature’s miraculous will to just get some nice and steady sunlight. But is that right? Mhm. Getting off to Google now to finally let this “totally childish” question be answered by a proper online Encyclopedia!