Was Dr. Suess in touch with his Inner Witch when he wrote The Lorax…Did Dr. Seuss talk to trees? Is that why he came up with The Lorax? Was he in touch with his inner witch? A quick Google search turns up very little referencing the birth of The Lorax maybe a Cypress or Cedar tree was cut down in La Jolla and that was his inspiration.
”I speak for the trees.”
I get really sad when we have to mow the grass. I hate when people refer to their dogs as ‘its’. I hate when trees are cut down for no good reason. I hate Christmas Tree farms. I hate that most Christmas tree farms are sprayed with glyphosphate how it leeches off the branches of these pines into the water bowl the tree is sitting in and very few people will know the danger. And worse, very few people will want to hear about the danger.
”It’s Christmas.” They say. We don’t want to hear that The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified glyphosate as “probably” carcinogenic to humans, which means there was sufficient evidence of cancer in animals, but limited evidence of cancer in humans. That Christmas Trees are mono-cash crop creating waste and devastation where you merrily went and cut down a whole life-form allowing it to slowly choke in a kitten sized water bowl. As if holiday cheer can’t be held hand in hand with heartbreak. As if this time doesn’t damned deserve the grace of all of it. I grew up in a Christian household. I know the Lord’s prayer and Christmas was a time when the lore of Jesus was double downed. Despite becoming a devout atheist as twelve and now a deeply spiritual person at twenty-nine and still not a devout Christian I love Christmas.
I love the sparkle of lights, I love the magic in the air, I love giving gifts, I love making gifts, I love cooking and baking and singing and all the cheer and good will spread around. What’s so funny is that the traditions of Christmas are actually Pagen and stem from the Germans who retained the Pagen rituals. When Christianity was still an occult and taboo belief system, Christians celebrated the birth of Jesus inside the timeframe of the Pagen celebration of Yule. In the United States (as it was in progress of being colonozied) “The pilgrims’s second governor, William Bradford, wrote that he tried hard to stamp out “pagan mockery” of the observance (of Christmas), penalizing any frivolity.” As more and more German immigrants came to the U.S their Christmas traditions came with them.
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