Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

Since I was ill, I didn't receive this reading, so it took me a little while to get my hands on it. As I read it, though, my head kept getting filled with songs that related somehow to the reading. (I.E. Pocahontas: "We are all connected to each other in a circle, in a hoop that never ends.")

The song that stuck with me throughout the whole reading, though, was Where Have All the Flowers Gone?, a folk song written by Pete Seeger and Joe Hickerson.



The song is a cycle that starts with flowers and ends with flowers. The flowers are picked by young girls. The young girls marry young men. The young men turn into soldiers. The soldiers go to graveyards, and the graveyards turn into flowers once again. It's a circle that seems to have no birth or death because everything else is formed from what already existed. It really reminded me of the reading.

Also, a few things that stuck out to me:

1) You are a continuation of yourself even if you aren't the same person you were yesterday.

2) Time is what changes things, and you can see the changes even before time changes them. Everything is there just waiting for their time.

3) You are what you are looking for.