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Britton Gildersleeve
This is the 2nd baby rabbit that Sophie-the-13-year-old-cat has brought in to us. Unfortunately, the 1st one didn’t survive the experience 🙁 . (We won’t go in to the gruesome way it ended up, and it wasn’t really the cat’s fault…) Usually when Sophie brings me ‘gifts,’ if I can get to her immediately, and…
rain, petrichor, and pluviophiles
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Britton Gildersleeve
We’ve had 7 inches of rain this past week. Other parts of Oklahoma have had a foot or more. When I went to the Farmer’s Market this week, the radishes looked more like scarlet beets, they were so huge! The fragrance of rain hitting dirt has a name: petrichor. I remember when I learned that word…
simplify
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Britton Gildersleeve
I’m enamoured of tiny houses. My dream is that I will someday be able to fit my entire belongings into 1/s of a tiny house, w/ my beloved paring his down, as well. Every thing we own would be a well-loved piece, one with intrinsic value, and/or useful. The house might just be 3 ‘rooms’…
the magic of seeds…
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Britton Gildersleeve
Seeds are a GREAT metaphor. Unlike gardens… Well, maybe gardens work for some folks, but they don’t work for me when people use them to talk about multiculturalism. Hello, I GARDEN. At a verrry prestigious fellowship I once received, I sat at a table w/ a lot of pretty traditional academics. There were a few…
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