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Thank you to Jenn Campus and Dina Gregory for another great heart-to-heart at La Befana’s Table!

A moment which touched my heart : the part about the plants that grow up through the pavement.

My dad was a stone mason and LOVED every aspect of it, especially the tradition and history ( he was always like a kid in a candy shop when in Italy -explaining how ancient monuments were built and how brilliant the old timers were…)

So he loved concrete and used to explain how miraculous it is and how strong it is and how if it were made correctly, it could last for millennia.

Then he would say, “ There’s only one thing that can break good concrete…”

And he would tell me, “…a little dandelion!!”

He used that as a metaphor to explain that there is always a way & that no matter what ‘size’ we are, we have power.

More than we know.

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Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful story and an important reminder that the small can be mighty! Long live the dandelion.

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