http://www.esteeklar.com/2009/03/07/gross-national-happiness/ The Joy of Autism is about our journey with autism and our opinions about how society views it. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:33:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.esteeklar.com/2009/03/07/gross-national-happiness/comment-page-1/#comment-526 Emily Ziehmer Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:59:30 +0000 http://www.esteeklar.com/?p=1069#comment-526 This may be a bit simplistic, but I love the saying. The grass is certainly not greener on the other side, it is greener where you water it. You are not just watering your own grass but, fertilizing it and keeping out those ugly weeds that choke the beauty out of any lawn. It is much more productive to water your own grass than to peer over the fence in awe of the neighbor's astrolawn. Yes, astrolawn advertises synthetic beauty, and the ease of having the "perfect" lawn with no grass stains or bugs, but I happen to like the dirt and the bugs. Without the "dirt" in our lives, how can we grasp the pure essence of joy, or even begin to recognize the beauty to be beheld or the beauty sitting right in our laps? This may be a bit simplistic, but I love the saying. The grass is certainly not greener on the other side, it is greener where you water it. You are not just watering your own grass but, fertilizing it and keeping out those ugly weeds that choke the beauty out of any lawn. It is much more productive to water your own grass than to peer over the fence in awe of the neighbor’s astrolawn. Yes, astrolawn advertises synthetic beauty, and the ease of having the “perfect” lawn with no grass stains or bugs, but I happen to like the dirt and the bugs. Without the “dirt” in our lives, how can we grasp the pure essence of joy, or even begin to recognize the beauty to be beheld or the beauty sitting right in our laps?

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