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Gleanings From Living Long
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Friends and family decorate our lives with their love and generosity. The really good souls will hold onto you in the bad times as well as the joyful occasions, and bring good food to the table. Given the opportunity, those who love you the most will make sure that if they're going to…
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Have you ever noticed when you meet someone who has a child who is differently-abled that they have a certain serenity about them? They are calm and seem to be more present somehow. It's a gift to see them and to be reminded to take time a little more slowly, to look around…
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The gentle spring light Wakes a single white iris. Joy in the garden. Haiku by Paula Post Thanks to…
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Spiders and webs, what a brilliant idea! How did Mother Nature come up with these things? This spider is so curious that it is difficult to discern its head from its toe. There are so many secrets in life to unravel, it's astonishing.
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The vine in the center of this photograph promises much when first planted and then disappears into the tree tops, its leaves blending with the oak's. It isn't until it blooms that you remember that it is there at all. That's when the flowers come sailing back to earth. They land everywhere –…
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Purity and perfection… you can almost detect the sweet scent of this magnolia blossom. Complimenting a neighbor on her exquisite magnolia tree, I learn that she planted the seed for it 50 years ago! I knew a woman in her nineties who continued to plant saplings. Planting trees when you know…
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If you could be a flower, which would you be? One of the brave first bloomers that tempt winter to send a late frost? How about a grand amaryllis, delicate on its long stem, yet stately and beautiful? Or perhaps a lily that lasts only a day? Would you prefer to bloom in…
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There is a saying that - "Life is what happens to us while we are busy making other plans." Life in all of its messy perfection, like wildflowers by the side of the road that escaped the boundaries of the perfect garden years ago to create another version of Eden. Here it's wild…
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The day after this close encounter there were little discs, about half the size of a dime, floating in the pond. Several days later, they were swimming and the little pond was host to hundreds of tadpoles or pollywogs! After a few weeks… back legs, then front legs, and the tail disappears. …
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