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Let’s Grow Some Weed!
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Let’s Grow Some Weed!

February 26, 2014June 5, 2023Blog posts, Gardeningby

Milkweed, that is.  I know, funny how that headline kinda grabbed your attention, right?  Anyway, my sister, Nora, a wonderful gardener and nature lover, brought to my attention something that has been hovering on the edge of my consciousness for awhile now (planted there by various headlines that I only glanced at);  Monarch butterflies are...

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Beauty Will Save the World, Part 2

February 17, 2014June 5, 2023Blog posts, Gardening, Philosophyby

I recently completed a run of Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin, an opera that I (and almost everyone else) know a few tunes from (Summertime,  I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’, It Ain’t Necessarily So), but I had never listened to all the way through.  The process was both challenging and moving to me.  I...