YEAH.
Dendrology with Don Leopold
Sweet. This is like the entire Dendrology class I had when I was at SUNY-ESF. For those interested in learning about trees in the US, he’s a great teacher.
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
“Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean…” (Psalm 51:7)
With hyssop: take to my habits, my attitudes, my habits of attitude.
Burl brought over a cup of six blue-tailed/five-lined skink eggs tonight. One of which had just hatched and the others were emerging as we watched!
our Maine man, Peter
Bidding farewell to good (F/)friends. These people are lovely.
“The Curras moved from Massachusetts in five stages – starting with farm machinery and ending with their cows – beginning in May of 1970. They developed the farm infrastructure bit by bit, building hay storage their second year…
I love the Lab of O. I really do.
"It All Turns on Affection"
It was a joy and delight to be at the Kennedy Center this past Monday to witness Wendell Berry give the Jefferson Lecture. For the first time, the archived video is available online at this link and the full lecture text is available here too.
Greening in the Red Zone: Disaster, Resilience and Community Greening
“Access to green space and the act of creating green spaces is well understood to promote human health, especially in therapeutic contexts among individuals suffering traumatic events. Less well understood, though currently being studied, is the role of access to green space and the act of creating and caring for such places in promoting neighbourhood health and well being as related to social-ecological system resilience. An important implication of Greening in the Red Zone lies in specific instances of greening and the presence of greened spaces in promoting and enhancing recovery, and perhaps resilience, in social-ecological systems disrupted or perturbed by violent conflict or other catastrophic disaster.”
I really want to get this and read this and keep this.
Pretzels & Lent
For those of you who know my particular affinity and affection for pretzels…
You should read this article about pretzels birthed in Lenten fasts and their association with prayer and providing for the hungry.
