Garden lore has it that the scarlet-orange color of the Trumpeter rose actually intensifies in the summer heat.
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If only … I’d had my camera with me. If only … I’d pulled off the road to breathe in that awesome seascape. If only … I’d taken the time to drop what I was doing and follow the lead of the Universal Magnet, pulling me into new adventures and demanding that I join the dance of life, impromptu, right now!
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At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable. ~ Christopher Reeve
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The massive scale of grass steppes, valleys and thin riverine forests in the Khan Khentee protected area in northeastern Mongolia are better suited to horseback riding than to walking, but on this day I was a happy biped moving slowly through dung-maculated valleys full of the bleached skulls, spines and other stray bones of departed animals.
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This poem was written for a Peace Project organized by Judy Fisk Lucas. I wrote it thinking of the flooding along the Mississippi a few years back, but it seems relevant every time another place falls to waters, like Nashville, just recently.
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When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. ~ Helen Keller
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Responding to community need after a personal time of trial where she found herself alone with no one to turn to for help, Katie Ritchie created Deborah’s Palm, a women’s center in Palo Alto offering resources, counseling, classes, and comaraderie to women of all ages walking through its doors. continue reading …
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On second thought … petunias ~ although often considered “ordinary” because one sees them in so many places ~ are really quite extraordinary.
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We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic. ~ E. Merrill Root (1895-1973), American Writer
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Native to Chile, the Butterfly Bush (Buddleia globosa) ~ bearing clusters of lavender, white, soft pink, yellow, purple, or cranberry cone-shaped flowers ~ is sure to bring hummingbirds, bees, and butterflies to your garden.
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