Solstice
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Ward off the longest night with candle flameLet go the past year’s built-up painbut hold to beauty. Bring the new year in.
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Tomato as perennial, and other mysteries
Mid December, and not much rain. I’ve been looking around the garden, and thinking things like should weed and time to prune, but then the sun goes on shining and…
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Once upon a time in Austria
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Once upon a time in Austria, on vacation, in Salzburg, I went to a classical music concert – Mozart, I think. This was in winter, just a week or so…
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Get Your Sh*t Together: A (Very Rambling) Book Review
Warning: there is benign & perhaps humorous swearing in this post. Also, this post is not about gardening. Sometime after the Marie Kondo craze began and everyone started eyeing their…
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Meditation on New Mexico’s green chile
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The first time I tasted green chile I was nineteen years old sun-struck desert-struck in love with sunburn with the desert with the wide ranges of the interstates with the…
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Six-on-Saturday garden report: early December
The rain hasn’t really begun, and the roses are still blooming. I turned the watering system off, then on again when I realized that November’s barely-there rain-slash-mist wasn’t going to…
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