TALKING TO THE MOON

 Bruno Mars! Yes, you got it correct. It is his song. I tried to understand the main message of the song. Ah...missing someone. Every night, he misses the girl. He then sits by himself and talks to the moon.

 This title came across my mind as I was sitting in the car while my daughter was driving. The radio was on, but the sound was just a background of an empty silence that occupied the air. I told her what I had been facing lately...I turned to be so forgetful and sometimes I stood in front of the fridge not knowing what to do. She focused on the traffic. Of course she has to... who doesn't. The silence was back again. 

Then I brought up a topic about our family. I told  her that her sister was a bit bizarre this morning for no reason. She nodded gently and no word came out of her mouth. I began to feel a bit offended...not really offended actually but hurt to be precise. 

My mind was working very hard to find a topic that might be of her interest. But I got  stuck... and let the emptiness dangle and sway around my  hollow heart. The music which had been the background of our being together, then appeared as a leading focus. The sound of Bruno Mars was there...hey...that's me. I might be talking to the moon... 

THE BURN NETTLE

 One plant that add so much work on my garden is a wild plant called Urtica Dioica. I have to keep on removing them since they grow rapidly and wildly. Wikipedia mention it as common nettle, burn nettle, stinging nettle or nettle leaf, or just a nettle or stinger. It is a herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the family Urticaceae.  After touching the plant, the hair that grows penetrate my skin and stinging sensation immediately appears. The fine hairs on the leaves and stems contain irritating chemicals.  Despite of its benefit that can be used to treat various ailments  when properly prepared, I still do not want to have it grow in my garden.  

However my regular  interactions with this plant has brought me to an awareness of its growing behavior. I have some other flowers that I love to have and grow in my garden, wishbone flowers. The leaves are similar to the burn nettle. The nettle plant always grow nearby the wishbone plant. If you don't interact with them on the daily basis, you will hardly notice the difference between them. Another behavior that I observe, the nettle plant tend to hide among the rocks and make it hard for me to notice and remove them. 

I wonder if they both belong to the same family or they have similar growing habit that make them grow on similar spots. I wonder if I would like to spend some time on doing a small research on the benefit of the burn nettle.