I don't think I've even seen a living specimen of the species and the related flowering camellias intimidate me. I have a brown thumb, or perhaps more exactly a severe disinterest in purely decorative plants.
Now that you've asked the question, however, you have me intrigued. I wonder if I can grow one. I have two pots of coffee plants in my home - stunted and unlikely to ever bloom, sadly, but still alive and pleasing after several years. It would be amusing to say I have a tea plant as well.
Switching tracks ... when I posted this I was mostly thinking "what a cool dream and I remember so much of it; I should write it down before I forget the details" but now you have me wondering if it's supposed to be a message. As a nation, we are divided by race, but in the dream, the laughing ... somewhat greedy ... child was not one or the other, but both. Could that represent the American people? It's clear that we are destroying ourselves by refusing to accept who we are as a whole.
The overtly spiritual part of the dream is more worrisome. Grandmother Earth, representing womb and grave, could be referring to the disease stalking among us. The two political extremes need to find a middle ground ("don't be so mean to that nice young man") and fight together not one another but against a common foe; but both sides distrust the other ... perhaps too much to cooperate.
Camellia chinesis
I don't think I've even seen a living specimen of the species and the related flowering camellias intimidate me. I have a brown thumb, or perhaps more exactly a severe disinterest in purely decorative plants.
Now that you've asked the question, however, you have me intrigued. I wonder if I can grow one. I have two pots of coffee plants in my home - stunted and unlikely to ever bloom, sadly, but still alive and pleasing after several years. It would be amusing to say I have a tea plant as well.
Switching tracks ... when I posted this I was mostly thinking "what a cool dream and I remember so much of it; I should write it down before I forget the details" but now you have me wondering if it's supposed to be a message. As a nation, we are divided by race, but in the dream, the laughing ... somewhat greedy ... child was not one or the other, but both. Could that represent the American people? It's clear that we are destroying ourselves by refusing to accept who we are as a whole.
The overtly spiritual part of the dream is more worrisome. Grandmother Earth, representing womb and grave, could be referring to the disease stalking among us. The two political extremes need to find a middle ground ("don't be so mean to that nice young man") and fight together not one another but against a common foe; but both sides distrust the other ... perhaps too much to cooperate.