A guest post by Heather Hoyt who writes at Heather Moments.
I live without lawn right now. My yard is mostly sand–the dirt isn’t completely sand, which I would prefer. It’s just really sandy, mixed in with a fair share of rocks, dead plant material, etc. It’s not very pleasant to play in and it’s not very conducive to grow anything. There are these little dead plant things with sap on them that get stuck to your shoes or feet whenever you go outside and won’t come all the way off even if you scrub really hard.
I miss lawn. I miss flowers too. The closest flower to my house is some penstemon growing on the side of the road a few hundred feet away. I have some trees, but they are responsible for the sticky plant material that ends up on the bottom of your feet.
My yard is just sort of chaos right now. I do rake it out. But I miss having a yard with some order.
I would love a sandbox–a contained sandbox, not just a big pile of sand out there. I still enjoy exploring in the desert–but I wish I could come back to a piece of earth that seemed more contained, more orderly, and less wild.
And most of all, I miss lawn. I want to stretch out on the ground. Sit down without getting my clothes dirty. Run around barefoot. Put down a small kiddie pool without creating a mess of mud. Throw or kick a ball back and forth. Watch clouds. Let my toddler play without having to worry about getting sand and dirty everywhere And have somewhere where if she falls down, she doesn’t get all scraped up.
Dirt is fine, but when that is all you have, you miss the lawn.
Liz Braithwaite 
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