Today I went outside and saw a whole field of dandelion puffs. They looked like a field of soft white cotton balls.
They had tiny magical specks of seeds that were waiting for the wind to take them on a magical carpet ride to the far corners of the earth. I do not know why adults call them weeds and buy special chemicals to make them disappear. I think they are the neatest and most magical thing that grows in the grass in the whole wide world.
Did you know that all flowers can not just grow anywhere? They need special soil or special sunlight and special this and special that. If you look at the dandelion the yellow pieces look like the rays of the sun. You can tie the ends together and make the most beautiful necklace or garland for your clubhouse and the birds can even use it to decorate their bird nests for the newborn baby birds.

After they are tired of being in the sunlight, the dandelions magically turn into a puffy cloud. They patiently wait for children to pick them so that they can tickle their nose and hide small pieces of their magical cotton in their hair and in their clothes. The dandelions really love it when you choose one of them to blow on and make a special wish. They feel that they have been chosen to send a special prayer to the heavens. They fly gently up to the sky and land on the clouds that draw pictures in the sky each day for the whole world to see.

I f you ever go to Joyville you will find that everyone loves dandelions. There will be fields and fields of this beautiful flower that is the color of the sun and moon. The children will be spinning in circles with laughter as they use the dandelions for jump ropes and hula hoops. Everyone will be wearing a beautiful dandelion halo on their head and the small white puffs from this flower will make their angel wings soft. Everyone will be feeling so healthy and happy. It will be a special day just for kids and dandelions. It will be like a Dandelion Festival. There will be dandelions dancing to music, dandelion decorations and even yellow ice cream in dandelion shaped cups. Everything will be so very beautiful and bright that all the children will stay up all night for the best party that they ever had.

Dandelions are a lot like me right now. I do not know when I may turn into a puffy dandelion that will fly to the clouds. I think that the sky is full of special dandelion clouds that puff up and pop open with special seeds when it rains so that we will have these flowers for ever and ever. I hope that when you see a dandelion that you will blow on it and let the puffy seeds float up to the sky to make a new dandelion cloud for everyone to play with. When you want to see me, just look up at the clouds and look for the one that looks like a dandelion. I can blow my small white puffs to you and you can blow some back to me. We can have the best pillow fight ever. We will laugh very hard because everything will tickle.

Finally we will hug and fall asleep together holding hands so we do not fall off our special, soft cloud that will float across the sky. Everyone will know who we are because we will be wearing our beautiful, bright, dandelion halos.

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