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Farewell summer: on wood asters and the wilderness
In the more open places are little lavender asters, and the even smaller-flowered white ones that some people call bee weed or farewell summer. From “An Entrance to the Woods," by poet, essayist, and farmer Wendell Berry. Farewell summer Only when we bid...
Nature might be spontaneous, mostly I am not.
Spontaneous insects A spontaneous reaction: hundreds of angry hornets, acting on instinct to protect their nest. But it was the landscape crew that needed protection. They had cut down a dead tree along the walking trail above the driveway and discovered the tree...
Generous: when the giver becomes the gift
My husband Keith is “tit-for-tat” generous, that is, he tries to give at least as much as he receives. That and the Five-Minute Friday prompt, got me thinking about what generous really means. Here are some examples from Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary: The...