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Microcosm: A New Adventure

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Monday, October 6, 2014. The Pleasure of Your Company Is Requested. My friends, I've begun a new blog. It's not a gardening blog, though gardens will often be mentioned. It's more of a contemplative blog about roots and branches and lives that “leap greenly” but unfold slowly. I hope you'll enjoy The Stories of Trees. The blog also has a Facebook page. Which I invite you to Like.) They are not adventure stories. Trees are not adventurers. But oh, what lives they live. October 8, 2014 at 10:16 AM. Im so g...

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Microcosm: May 2012

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Thursday, May 31, 2012. Watching the Grass Grow. Any poor soul in the vicinity. Your fellow fans in between pitches. Scoring may give you an ephemeral rush, but the real joy lies in the tension that builds bit by bit as the game progresses. At such a measured, moss-gathering pace, passion has a chance to root deeply, grow, and bloom. Or so I understand. Greek germander ( Teucrium aroanium. Sand lovegrass ( Eragrostis trichodes. And wood betony,. Or pink cotton lamb's ear ( Stachys lavandulifolia. In the ...

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Microcosm: June 2012

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Thursday, June 28, 2012. Kerala Red' amaranth, 'Blackie' sweet potato vine, and a lonely carrot. Orange Giant' and 'Kerala Red' amaranth. I wonder if the ants don't have the tiny tip of a Christmas tree somewhere inside that urn. Links to this post. Thursday, June 21, 2012. Not All of N.M. Burning. Burning is easier than saying what is. Who knew it would be so fussy? After two or three days the survivors among the younglings, despite thick mulch and deep watering, are already thirsty again. I know how th...

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Microcosm: August 2012

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Thursday, August 30, 2012. Matters of Degree and Kind. I was thinking about that quantum leap from warmth to heat while wandering around at Plants of the Southwest. Gave voice to a poetry of warmth. The flowers' rich mahogany invited heat back into the fold. They reduced it to a human scale and did what they could to tame it. They tethered it to something comfortable and comforting. Two tiny Mexican hats in the left foreground, with blue grama grass ( Bouteloua gracilis. Soon the disc flowers come to life.

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Microcosm: April 2012

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Thursday, April 26, 2012. California poppies with 'Wisley Primrose' sun roses ( Helianthemum nummularium. The petunias aren't really this color, but they are definitely bright. Out the kitchen door. But of course, you can't. A relative term, brightening. It means something different in middle-age than it did at 18. Then again, so does strength. Links to this post. Thursday, April 19, 2012. Mormon tea ( Ephedra viridis. The micro-garden, showing two colors of orach, along with pepper cress and garlic.

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The Cellar Door Stories: 17 Months DTE

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Thursday, May 2, 2013. Wow - 4 months since I've blogged! Thanks to all of you sweet friends who have commented, emailed, left FB messages and wondered where I was - yes, I am happy to report that I am still alive! I've come to find out that blogging is one of those things where if you take a break from it, it's really really hard to get back into the habit. But now is as good a time as any - so here's the update! Infant Boy (0-18mo) = 40. Young (under 4 yr) siblings = 24. Siblings with older child =6.

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Microcosm: September 2012

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Thursday, September 20, 2012. Staying Out of the Way. Sometimes you're just not the one who matters, and so you just don't move. When untamed lives that are not rabbits come to a tiny, urban garden, you do your best to efface yourself, and let them experience the garden as if without you. Photos? Forget them. They're not important. The slightest gesture toward your camera, even the subtlest tilt of the lens, is enough to spook a shy being. It's better not to move. Five feet seven inches of human are a lo...

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Microcosm: February 2013

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Thursday, February 28, 2013. Coming to Terms (Again). If you go back to its roots, a periphery is literally something that is "carried around." Back in the 16th century (or the 14th, depending on your source), the word referred to the atmosphere around the earth. I'd love to know what, in those long-ago days, people really meant by atmosphere. Maybe they had something like the Belt of Venus. Something beautiful gets lost in the summation, though. Even in the softness of shade, those delicate whiskers...

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Microcosm: Helping Joy Happen

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1 Prioritize. Illness does offer us gifts, if we just have the good sense to recognize them. One of the most powerful gifts is also one of the nastiest afflictions—the incapacity to do everything (or almost anything) we used to do. The good side of that is that we really have to figure out what matters to us at the very deepest levels. What are your core values? What principles do you hold most dear? Not what do you enjoy doing. The most, but what do you care. 6 Melt down occasionally. With a trusted fri...