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Give It All Away! Wisdom of the plants
2012-05-27 These days, as spring turns to summer, the garden is insistent with one message: Give it away, or lose it all. Early in the development of a garden, it’s about procurement. Picking out plants, choosing a place for them, seeing how they do. With the kinds of perennials I tend to favor, that is…
Read MoreWho Would Jesus Fence Off?
2012-05-30 Last week a Baptist pastor by the name of Worley got a fair bit of internet attention for declaring that gay people should all be stuck behind an electric fence – lesbians in one area and “queers and homosexuals” in another, where food could be dropped to them from an airplane until they all…
Read MoreHaunting Conversations
2012-06-03 I moved away from Minneapolis to live in Boston and DC from 1989-2004, and then moved back. One thing I love about being back where I spent my young adult years is when I run into people I knew from the 1980’s. Recently, I ran into a woman who looked dimly familiar. When…
Read MoreMaking Room for Silence
2012-06-01 In his poem “Keeping Quiet” Pablo Neruda begins with this: Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still. For once on the face of the earth, let’s not speak in any language; let’s stop for one second, and not move our arms so much. It would be an exotic moment…
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