Flixweed, Göteborg, January 11th, 2002

Now that I was fortunate to find an unambiguous winter rosette of the Flixweed it is not difficult to see that what I brought home from the New lawn in the end of October must be something else. So because of the knot I made there, the Flixweed will have to share page space with the Mystery.

It is, in all likelihood an extraordinary specimen of Pineappleweed - although this won't be certain until its single bud bursts. But SOME thing in the Composite vein it is, thriving on the window- sill in my "refrigerated" bedroom, together with another couple of riddles.

This is what it's like.

I mean
this is what learning is like:
  making mistakes
  speaking
  before full certainty
  just to hear
  where your own words
  make you suspicious
  enough to go back
  and look again
  and go back
  again
  and
  go in other directions
  looking.

All I mean is:
LEARNING TAKES ITS TIME.