Pick Buttercups

These two words have been on our To Do list every day for the past two months as these sweet little flowers have come, and now just about gone.

Pick buttercups

As simple as that.

And yet, this has meant allotting time. Getting the bikes out. Exploring. Finding a place where buttercups are safe to run wild and free. And discovering, ultimately, that we are safe to run wild and free as well. To let go of self-consciousness. To dance. To cartwheel. Under the power lines. In overgrown lots. In our lives.

That song, Build Me Up Buttercup, permeated the air every time we gathered fistfuls of these so-called “weeds.” Passersby even sang it to us, with us. Our TikToks feature as many versions of it as you can imagine. This night-time discovery, in particular, took our breath away.

And now, the very last patch of our little cheery friends almost done blooming, our collection of dried buttercups rests in a pretty yellow box waiting to adorn the plantable packaging we’ve created for your BikeBloom earrings. Yes, you will grow wildflowers. Maybe not buttercups, but wildflowers.

As the modern dancer Isadora Duncan so famously said:

You were once wild here.

Don’t let them tame you.