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lovely bookstore, lovely story

January 20, 2012

Geez, I was getting weepy over this. Have you ever seen such a beautiful location for a bookstore?

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Rah Rah for Ta Tas (Hallelujah)

September 18, 2011

In Portland, OR today more than 35,000 people walked and ran in Race for the Cure to raise money for breast cancer research, early detection and education. The energy of the crowd was peaceful and joyous—in part because of how seamlessly and carefully the huge event was organized—nothing for participants to fret about—plenty of information [...]

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Let the Great World Spin; Colum McCann, 2009

September 11, 2011

The tragedy of 9/11 is not the loss of the Twin Towers, but of the people who died that day, there and in Pennsylvania and Virginia. The Towers, though, are a symbol of the various and myriad losses at and subsequent to that moment. After 9/11 people remembered Phillipe Petit and his walk between the [...]

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necessity of mustard

April 18, 2011

“In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that’s why you’re not [...]

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Symbiosis

March 9, 2011

Watch full screen if possible (click on the image in the top right corner).

Addendum:
Speaking of symbiosis, after I posted this, my mother sent me a link to the video below. We are all intermingled and intertwined, genetically, atomically, culturally…

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flowers in winter (window ledge in the atom age)

February 10, 2011

Fresh flowers for weeks in winter for only a few dollars = forced narcissus bulbs = paper whites. Why? To remind us that under the earth all is not dead; spring will come, the grass will grow, flowers will bloom again. Find the bulbs at florists, garden and farm supply stores, sometimes even at the [...]

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We all contribute

November 25, 2010

In honor of my grandmother, Laura Popenoe, on Thanksgiving, I want to say that we all contribute. Some of us are the life of the party at the groaning Thanksgiving board, telling stories so riveting that the entire table sits rapt, ending with a punchline that knocks everyone off their seats, dizzy with laughter. But [...]

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The kids love me today

October 27, 2010

…because I made them popcorn balls—“old-fashioned” popcorn balls. Don’t let the name fool you—this is junk food through and through, and mighty hard on the old fillings. But fun to make. At first I thought the vinegar and baking soda were part of the old-timey flavor, though the ingredients for “volcano” did cross my mind. [...]

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God is in the details…I mean, in the lichen

September 19, 2010

Lichen are an incredible example of symbiosis in nature. Wikipedia says, “Lichens are composite organisms consisting of a symbiotic association of a fungus (the mycobiont) with a photosynthetic partner (the photobiont or phycobiont), usually either a green alga or cyanobacterium. The morphology, physiology and biochemistry of lichens are very different from those of the [...]

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