Week 3: Grass

grass. / grăs / Any of a large family ( Gramineae or Poaceae ) of monocotyledonous plants having narrow leaves, hollow stems, and clusters of very small, usually wind-pollinated flowers. Grasses include many varieties of plants grown for food, fodder, and ground cover. Wheat, maize, sugar cane, and bamboo are grasses.

Touching Grass

To go outside; enjoy nature (used especially as an exhortation to spend less time on electronic devices): More people need to go touch grass and get off their devices for a while. Enough doomscrolling already—touch grass! The touch grass meme sprouted up as a humorous reminder for folks glued to their digital screens to step out and grab a slice of sunshine and reality. So, when someone on Twitter, amidst a heated debate or a cascading thread of doomscrolling says, "go touch some grass," they're not gifting you gardening duties.