They would eat its blossoms and stalks in the spring, ... And use its fiber to make rabbit nets, sandals and mats.

Don't worry about which fiber you should eat. Just eat more of all of them.

What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.

It is a great thing when I make company in the mornings and in the nights on the drive home after long days of purpose filled drives.  They are extra special when you look around and spot young boys trying to become who they want to be; athletes, or bread winners just like they are taught, or hoping to become.  Driving today by a field that was once plowed with no corn to see it fully grown was grace.

A good year is determined by its spring

She looks like something that would eat its young