Zz The Purple Butterfly And A Toad's Severed Leg Poem by Saiom Shriver

Zz The Purple Butterfly And A Toad's Severed Leg



In 1972 the writer's stepson David
was mowing the family lawn and accidentally
chopped the leg off of a toad. He was upset about it.

She suddenly
decided to stop mowing her
lawn. The following year when the local city
magistrates ordered her to
mow, she issued a press release about the ahimsa
(nonviolence) aspects of not
mowing. Channel 8
responded.. and scheduled an
interview.. but the following
day as she was driving up the
street in the Boxville type
development.. she felt no tv
show could communicate
anything but an unkempt
lawn surrounded by neatly
manicured ones in which no
dandelion dared lift his head.

She went in to cancel the show
and while she was on the
phone the Channel 8 van
drove up. She waited for the
newsman to knock on the door.
He never did. She looked out
back.. and saw him filming a
6 ft. high thistle plant with a
lavender blooma.. upon one flower had
alighted a 6 inch wide deep
royal purple butterfly who was
moving her wings back and
forth. Never before or since has she
seen that size butterfly. The scene
was the whole
television show.. the lavender
thistle and deep purple
butterfly, with no sound.
Never before nor

Sathya Sai Baba subsequently let her know that He
had materialized the butterfly for her
and that He had given victory in the court
case, which was settled in federal court
with probono attorneys.


The city came in and mowed
down the lawn. Two merciful
angels, Beverly R and Bill
W, gave probono work
and filed directly in federal
court, challenging the
mowing on the basis that it
violates the 1st amendment of
the U.S. constitution to force
someone to kill living beings
against spiritual principles.
The judge ruled the city had
to pay damages. It is virtually
impossible to mow a lawn
without killing baby sapling
trees, ants, butterflies, fireflies,
toads,
bumblebees etc. With huge
harvesters, the devastation is
much greater as red winged
blackbirds and small field
mammals are shredded.

Through the years what began as a press release
about 7 reasons not to mow has grown to 66 reasons.


Atty Rappoport in the Chicago EPA developed a legal brief
defending those who are fighting against compulsory mowing
FoodNotLawns Dot Com has extensive chapters.

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-saiom shriver-

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