tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90817028947637791452024-03-05T18:28:15.430-05:00From the WildReflections on Organic Horticulture, Kitchen Alchemy, Herbalism, Art, and Spirituality.
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Wild (adj): (1)untamed, undomesticated, living freely in a natural habitat; (2)enthusiastic or eager; (3)lively and showing a disregard for rules; (4)unconventional; (5) visionary; (6)extraordinary; (7)excellent</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger132125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081702894763779145.post-56708116640403219342023-08-27T14:22:00.003-04:002023-08-27T14:22:19.811-04:00Textures and Patterns<p> from a recent trip to Blackwater Falls Nat'l Park:<br /><br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTJMpmFGeX0Z9ZbRQgW7PhucrxbaqsLY1mhBBMjt_1ienWPEa9GqCqJU96T1ORA4FGUJyAMMXaJw5gO04wn2iZQrxzRNua5Oi5lIIPXFQLP1sqNJsYyaDikW9gc5NL3f1K1VgZ2Zp6Y7oo3lPky7KUNgyFBLlBsp8rwciqxieUL-mMLXiH5FjH9aP_-aw/s3200/P8227694.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2400" data-original-width="3200" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTJMpmFGeX0Z9ZbRQgW7PhucrxbaqsLY1mhBBMjt_1ienWPEa9GqCqJU96T1ORA4FGUJyAMMXaJw5gO04wn2iZQrxzRNua5Oi5lIIPXFQLP1sqNJsYyaDikW9gc5NL3f1K1VgZ2Zp6Y7oo3lPky7KUNgyFBLlBsp8rwciqxieUL-mMLXiH5FjH9aP_-aw/w640-h480/P8227694.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: medium;"><br />"I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too.</span></div></div><div style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: medium;">I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wandering awed about on a splintered wreck I’ve come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty beats and shines not in its <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="font-family: inherit;"></a></span>imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them, under the wind-rent clouds, upstream and down.”</span></div></div><div style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: medium;">- Annie Dillard, 'Pilgrim at Tinker Creek'</span></div></div></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5Z3QkeEH5ntKO5W-6Z0e4xZP4TFvFXm2kGl6FbMhF_T3lYXZUSAN1XoeMiEDBCtzl7gAfqRxrYhhZ9Ou3DllknGydyWYQwKkEYxxehS0tnfOyi-Kl8OITDKxNAI3X0ZAvco4-nhhIvanf3Ufu43O091kTIx8kVp7kMsLKN7OEkQ9A7S7EAdYo6A3qSLI/s3200/P8217611.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOMhvydAC6u2POk8sG567dQs4WT5KlF9MtZqwaf6rgLtbhjqgPguZZzAbl6tobAJ8i7oWfl2fFhMcKSYDRKlNKXVW5YPoAgCF0Q2uQArQ6h8i-m0DLVcvna-qA4q3ibHZapmZlSdLZukyD3APx3KOkmI5YX7kZG0qnNma_xa8kJTaSSbNJDT52pY1X/w640-h480/IMGP0078%20(2)pastel.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47;">like a death, this is the true beginning</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47;">drag your body to the altar</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47;">quality of sweetness, rooted in sacrifice</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47;">drop down into the silence</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47;">healing by fire</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47;">eludes language</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47;">the doorkeeper</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47;">together in the woods</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47;">at the root of our own</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47;">she is the passion</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47;">swept away in a hurricane</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47;">visions in detail</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47;">all who dwell</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47;">the sacred balance</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47;">the sun goes down</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47;">and celebration</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47;">something in it, offering</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47;">chance to let go</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47;">return to the sacred</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47;">laid down her yarn.</span></div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081702894763779145.post-84272601462434887672022-08-03T15:31:00.007-04:002022-08-03T15:34:28.071-04:00This, the first day of the rest of our lives
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #66d571; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">and as I swatted at the fly<br />it was as if sliced through spacetime<br />breaking it into a kaleidoscope of many<br />I usually do not like to kill things<br />but this death brought more<br />and the more was good.<br /><br />And so our story begins<br /><br />I closed my eyes<br />it was as though illuminated from within<br />darkness did not fall as usual<br />with the falling of my lids<br />but rather light<br />and the more I looked<br />I began to see<br />my own eye looking back at me<br />and it blinked<br />and looked around<br />seeing me from within<br />seeing everything at all.<br /><br />A myriad of bug bites<br />had appeared overnight<br />itching up a storm<br />like mystical pinpoints of union with the divine<br />infecting me with an awakened fury<br />recalling a time, that as a child<br />I had that fever<br />and that fleeting glimpse<br /><br />The song, it played for me,<br />and I for it.<br /><br />Oh the muse<br />from whence does she go<br />to where does she come<br /><br />All of our knowing<br />is built on a foundation<br />of indigeneity -<br />no matter how far we have strayed<br /><br />it’s there<br />at the root<br />our core churning<br />out the truth<br />ineffable though it is<br />it calls to us on the wind…</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHTpGmhi6cWO_Wf1AX8G7ZdlLvX7i_2Lf1NfN7-iXJ0Uyb7pDxCp2TyEVJngfhHXiBFLSy8tW4h48c0LpakAz0gIVGmkR6DKH3YXHM5tuhjtcwku2mnrttErNnXSMzjHlnxpdN8FstdbdfDiKWz5na-3yRbWscYTyUwdFbXdqCyq1mnu177oSleIEF/s2615/P8010780.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><i></i></a><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="2615" data-original-width="1837" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHTpGmhi6cWO_Wf1AX8G7ZdlLvX7i_2Lf1NfN7-iXJ0Uyb7pDxCp2TyEVJngfhHXiBFLSy8tW4h48c0LpakAz0gIVGmkR6DKH3YXHM5tuhjtcwku2mnrttErNnXSMzjHlnxpdN8FstdbdfDiKWz5na-3yRbWscYTyUwdFbXdqCyq1mnu177oSleIEF/s400/P8010780.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The Queen, She is reborn.</span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHTpGmhi6cWO_Wf1AX8G7ZdlLvX7i_2Lf1NfN7-iXJ0Uyb7pDxCp2TyEVJngfhHXiBFLSy8tW4h48c0LpakAz0gIVGmkR6DKH3YXHM5tuhjtcwku2mnrttErNnXSMzjHlnxpdN8FstdbdfDiKWz5na-3yRbWscYTyUwdFbXdqCyq1mnu177oSleIEF/s2615/P8010780.JPG" style="display: block; 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font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="192kq-0-0" style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">with her antennae and eye spots too</span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fesrj" data-offset-key="1gvj1-0-0" style="font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1gvj1-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="1gvj1-0-0" style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">likewise I see her back with my sensual body</span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fesrj" data-offset-key="8rr2n-0-0" style="font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8rr2n-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="8rr2n-0-0" style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">my antennae and eye spots cast and open.</span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fesrj" data-offset-key="n5vs-0-0" style="font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="n5vs-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="n5vs-0-0" style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fesrj" data-offset-key="e64pi-0-0" style="font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e64pi-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="e64pi-0-0" style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">Antennae - feathered and astounding sensorial receptors</span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fesrj" data-offset-key="d407l-0-0" style="font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d407l-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="d407l-0-0" style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">Eye spots like velvet alert snakes.</span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fesrj" data-offset-key="5ms7n-0-0" style="font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5ms7n-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="5ms7n-0-0" style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">What pray tell is put before me ...</span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fesrj" data-offset-key="8e9i3-0-0" style="font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8e9i3-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="8e9i3-0-0" style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fesrj" data-offset-key="9trmb-0-0" style="font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9trmb-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="9trmb-0-0" style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;"> may I know this relationship that has summoned.</span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fesrj" data-offset-key="2ct56-0-0" style="font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2ct56-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="2ct56-0-0" style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fesrj" data-offset-key="8uj1a-0-0" style="font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8uj1a-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="8uj1a-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">My kind of lunatic fringe.</span><span style="background-color: white;">
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</span></span></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081702894763779145.post-59453334589165368242021-04-29T09:13:00.004-04:002021-04-29T17:21:09.294-04:00Bedtime Gallop<p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZhBO6C0Y4Fo/YIqwiuqta4I/AAAAAAAAGMU/gm85zValFSgHKfu5bugF1U4koxjo7gIGQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/P4074371.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZhBO6C0Y4Fo/YIqwiuqta4I/AAAAAAAAGMU/gm85zValFSgHKfu5bugF1U4koxjo7gIGQCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/P4074371.JPG" width="480" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"> Starlight wrested from its mooring of day. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;">Night-weary cloak upon me</span></p><p><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> the leaden weight<span> </span></span><br /></span></p><p><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> of joy</span><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> weighs heavy with the knowledge</span><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> the scales tip as deep </span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> in the other direction.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;"><span><br /></span><br />Sleep<span> </span><span> a diamond mine trawled through</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;"><span> longing for relief</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> a thousand points of light.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;">The sullen waning Moon<span> <span> </span> running rough-trod through my fears.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;"><br /><br />With each settling</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;">the words</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;">they come</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;">insistent on my recording.<br /><br />My hand<span> furious in attempt at catching</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> the mind's flight of fancy</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> the heart's embrace</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> of a moment<span> undone.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;"><span><span><br /></span></span><br />Vine and bracken<span> </span><span> scrawled across the page</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;"> painstaking indulgence</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;"> stirred by cricket hymn.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;">Spring's unfolding</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;"> redemption and torment</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> a banquet<span> laden with fruits</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;"><span></span><span> </span><span> </span><span> soon enough to rot.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;"><span><br /><br />Not every bird caught in hand,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;">not every stone cast,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;"><span> </span>we set out.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;"><br /><br />Full and empty.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;">Clutching at pearls</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;"> of loss and longing</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;">words slip by</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"> many lost to the night...</span></span><br /></span><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5jmeofhQDf8/YIqwuDCx5AI/AAAAAAAAGMY/uhsisXLRenoAhTI5p3heTPbhH7ICDSJrACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/P4074372.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5jmeofhQDf8/YIqwuDCx5AI/AAAAAAAAGMY/uhsisXLRenoAhTI5p3heTPbhH7ICDSJrACLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/P4074372.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;">(Photos: Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker Holes in a decades-old landscape Holly)</div><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081702894763779145.post-860849575311633762020-11-21T08:49:00.006-05:002020-11-21T08:50:32.543-05:00Chop Water<p><span style="color: #0c343d;"> The first birdsong breaks the call of night</span></p><p><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span> freeing me from the churning of its depths,<br /><br /></span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <br />gratefully released from the tumult of waiting </span><br /></span></p><p><span><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> for the day<span> </span></span></span><br /></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> to break.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> Night already having broken itself <span> </span></span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> upon me.<br /></span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> Taking me, despite its starry silence,</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> into the noise of pain past</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> pain future.<br /><br /><br /></span><br />No thunder marked these heaving internal crests, but I was<br /><br /><span> struck</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span> all the same by the rumbling.<br /></span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d;">The day before, though punctuated by long sought, abiding gratifications,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d;"> was one of those that had to be put out of its misery <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>- destruction hard to bear.<br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span><span> </span>on the tail of several seasons that have each and every triggered</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span><span> </span>in the midst of years of societal growing pains.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d;">We make do</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span> and we do make</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span> </span><span> and it is done.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span><br /></span>Life goes on</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span> with or without us</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span> I go on</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span> with Life<span> </span></span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span> </span><span> all of it<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> - creation will take its turn.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span><span><br /></span></span></span><br /><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wiMvwtxgj0s/X7kaM7FFpWI/AAAAAAAAGFs/9MU5lBCQPhUPyML4m1DkO8p9ysipOtssgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/PB181652.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wiMvwtxgj0s/X7kaM7FFpWI/AAAAAAAAGFs/9MU5lBCQPhUPyML4m1DkO8p9ysipOtssgCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/PB181652.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081702894763779145.post-46126059644755139512020-08-17T09:05:00.011-04:002020-08-17T09:13:18.451-04:00Hark<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9jHi0mFW-ro/XzqAOYTU9DI/AAAAAAAAF-M/C3wCjgo6rjg6wASxfpWVJDPpLvX_sG3EQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/P8171083.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9jHi0mFW-ro/XzqAOYTU9DI/AAAAAAAAF-M/C3wCjgo6rjg6wASxfpWVJDPpLvX_sG3EQCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/P8171083.JPG" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><br /><span><b>Awakened<br /></b></span></span><span><b><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><span> </span><span> by a Crow<br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><span><span> </span><span> Cawing in the morning light<br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 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at the edges</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> my first sight greeting me from the window</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> Crickets<br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> herald the rest of the vibrant eulogy<br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> and Cicadas and Katydids soon follow<br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> for they know in death there is life</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>All going round<br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 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style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>one step closer to death<br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>and in that embrace<br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>even more alive than before</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>With All<br 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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large; text-align: start;">When I was dealing with Corona in my lungs a couple months ago, I utilized Mullein in my formula. I had some already harvested and dried at that time, but decided that I should also harvest some more to have on hand with this respiratory virus going around. Mullein is heavy this year, as plants seem often want to do when they are needed, showing their perfect timing and immersion in the flow.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large; text-align: start;">While harvesting I began to sing to Mullein about what was going on and why I was harvesting her leaves and then to sing to the virus that was meshing with my body. <br /><br />I'm not singer, but I am a long-time student of <a href="https://www.mindful.org/guided-breathing-meditation-cultivate-awareness/" target="_blank">breath</a> as a mindfulness practice, and the virus had made me short of breath, just doing simple activities like picking Mullein. This shortness of breath for no real reason* (I wasn't running up a hill - <a href="https://wildsparks.blogspot.com/2020/06/black-lives-matter.html" target="_blank">nor did I have a knee on my neck</a>) was a new experience for me (having never had asthma or pneumonia or anything like it) and I felt it important that I try to deep breathe and stay in touch with my lungs. I think this is why the singing happened, this undeniable connection to breath. I felt compelled and I obliged. </span><span style="color: #274e13;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large; text-align: start;"><br />The vibrations from singing with what little breath I could take felt healing for my body, just as I feel the cat's healing medicine when they lean against my chest and purr. I am thankful for the ~sound.~ I sang to the virus as yet another way to connect to this other part of life that was finding its terrain in my body - lyrics of a willingness to hear its song too. A mutual expression of meeting, of life, of relationship, of learning.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large; text-align: start;">And here, this weekend, Mullein comes to me again in the most majestic form. Truly a crowning. <3</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Corona is teaching us to look at what we are giving birth to; various things are coming to term that have long been in the works, but we still have choices to make as to have they are received and what we do with what is born unto us.</td></tr>
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Also, I wanted to share my formulary for those who know the herbs well enough by sight. I do not want to simply share a list of the herbs I utilized to get through the acute stages as they may not be the right ones for you. There is not a one size fits all answer in Herbalism as the body that a pathogen engages plays a role in how the pathogen manifests - and even if it manifests at all. This means that herbs are utilized for the specific body that has symptoms and what those symptoms are; Herbalism is not a 'take this for that' modality. So my formula for Corona may not be your formula for Corona and you do not want to make yourself worse; so please consult with a qualified practitioner if you are wanting to utilize herbs for Corona. But for those who know the herbs and understand differential diagnosis, I will share pictures for you to see what I utilized, and feel free to talk to me privately.<br />
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Many of you will recognize fresh sliced Ginger root and dried Citrus peel; these support digestion among other things. This is the formula I used at the peak of acuity with Corona when I felt I was going toward cytokine storm territory. Severe lung pain that had began at the bottom and worked its way up to feel it was encompassing them, wracking "bone" pain, could hardly take a breath, headache, strange heartbeat, severe fatigue, runny nose, sore throat, neck pain. I noticed immediate results from the formula. I had been on a different formula leading up to this point, and after peaking and feeling "better" I moved to formulas more nourishing and recovery oriented. <br />
I am still doing this now, but seem to have been left with a strange, but not severe, "achiness" in my whole body and strange pains I am not used to along with hands or fingers going to sleep for no reason. I am working to alleviate this, focusing on Blood. I no longer have the list of symptoms I had before, all that is cleared up except I still have fatigue, though it's nowhere near what it was.<br />
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">a mist receding.</span><br />
<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">the darkness conjures and the light reflects.</span><br />
<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">but where did they go. the tail spins off and I am lost again.</span><br />
<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">a myriad of destinations. leading nowhere.</span><br />
<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">and straight home to me.</span><br />
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Welp, it has been forever since I posted; can you tell I am building a house? Lots of the things I used to do, and plan to get back to, have fallen to the wayside in order to focus on this massive project. It's an interesting phase in life, a all-encompassing hiatus, sorta like getting a degree or having a newborn.<br />
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Nonetheless, I just had a much-needed vacation and went to Georgia for the <a href="https://www.americanherbalistsguild.com/symposium/join-us-29th-annual-ahg-symposium" target="_blank">American Herbalist Guild Symposium</a> and also got to explore some of the surrounding mountains of the <a href="https://www.fs.usda.gov/conf" target="_blank">Chattahochee National Forest</a>. It's gorgeous down there! The vibrant, yet gentle, light and color of the changing leaves soothed my soul. I want to share a few of the highlights here; may they soothe you too.<br />
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First, a minute-long video for you to pause and take a deep breath and center yourself.<br />
This was taken near a large waterfall which you will hear. Just breathe as you watch; that is all you need to do. Let the water wash away your tensions, your cares fall away with the leaves.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">“A Woman in harmony with her spirit</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">is like a river flowing.</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">She goes where she will without pretense </span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">and arrives at her destination</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">prepared to be herself</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">and only herself ” - Maya Angelou</span></h1>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Water finds her path to the great body, the ocean, just as we are finding our path back to the Earth.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Many paths, many branches, in the lungs of the Earth. We share the same breath.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 20px; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">And sorry I could not travel both</span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">And be one traveler, long I stood</span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">And looked down one as far as I could</span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">To where it bent in the undergrowth;</span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">Then took the other, as just as fair,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">And having perhaps the better claim,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">Because it was grassy and wanted wear;</span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">Though as for that the passing there</span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">Had worn them really about the same,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">And both that morning equally lay</span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">In leaves no step had trodden black.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">Oh, I kept the first for another day!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">Yet knowing how way leads on to way,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">I doubted if I should ever come back.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">I shall be telling this with a sigh</span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">Somewhere ages and ages hence:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—</span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">I took the one less traveled by,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">And that has made all the difference.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...it comes into view: a centered spiral of hay for winter, stored sunshine.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">We hold fast</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"> to tenuous threads</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">as though to let loose</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"> would be to fall,</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"> to fail,</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"> to lose</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"> when in actuality</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"> the emptiness and lack</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"> are all and everything needed</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"> in its nothingness</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"> there is nothing missing.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">liminal, numinous, sentient</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"> it, us, I</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">all is becoming</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">all is complete</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">if only yet</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">I cloak myself </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"> in this delirious madness</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"> and hope for morning.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">The Road before me</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">tree-lined, meadow-flanked</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">and upheld by blue mountains</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">that shift and fade</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">to blue sky.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">My Mind before me</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">expansive as sky</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">clouds roll by</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">I watch</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">Truth beheld intermingling,</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">twinkling like pinpoints</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">of starlight exposed.</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">Sky goes dark</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">then one can see </span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">what could not be seen in daylight.</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #0c343d;">It alludes, best seen</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">when not looking directly</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">simply being</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">shows it all,</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">gives it all.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">Like the mountain I sit, though moving.</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #0c343d;">The Universe casts her spell </span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">upon me</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">Knows Herself through me</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">holds opposites at one time.</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #0c343d;">The convoluted truth touches our skin</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">but briefly </span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">and is gone.</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">Transfigured.</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">A black cat in the night</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">eyes twinkling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">“You carry Mother Earth within you. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">She is not outside of you. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">Mother
Earth is not just your environment. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">which is the
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #351c75;">"There is a language older by far and deeper than words. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #351c75;">wind on snow, rain on trees, wave
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #351c75;">It is the language of dream, gesture, symbol, memory..."</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: large;">"But, child of dust, the fragrant flowers,<br />
The bright blue sky and velvet sod,<br />
Were strange conductors to the bowers<br />
Thy daring footsteps must have trod." </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="font-size: small;">Purple Deadnettle growing wild at the base of two of my hives: Ariadne and Stella. This is a flower that Honey Bees like (it creates red pollen!), but my Honey Bees are not on it, as they tend to prefer large nectar and pollen sources and will often stick to a species; the woodland trees around here provide a much greater "patch" of pollen to collect from. The Carpenter Bees however, are all over it. I have, on the other hand, heard of beekeepers, whose bees live near large fields rather than forests, bringing in loads of Purple Deadnettle pollen, and I've seen this flower blanket acres of fallow field. An enchantment either way... (plus YOU can eat them!)</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #741b47;">These two pictures show resiliency... you can see where, when the flower bud was just beginning and was small (just the tip), they got burnt by the cold snap we got after the super warm spell a couple weeks ago. The flower kept growing anyway, pushed the damage out of the way, and got on with it. The heart of the flower was still protected and unharmed. This is a Saucercup Magnolia; it is featured in the first image above.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Someday, after
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: large;">the waves, the tides and gravity, </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Once you've seen it, you can't unsee it.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="8lov4-0-0"><span data-text="true">Brood comb is darker than honeycomb mostly because some of the cocoons that the bees develop in remain and merge with the comb. This comb is from one of my four hives that died over the winter (the one the bear got into this past summer). All these provisions (3 and a half medium supers) will be used for the other hives and any splits I make. I will make at least one split to replace this loss. </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="8lov4-0-0"><span data-text="true">The other three hives are doing well and all have 60-140# of honey on them each. So I may harvest honey in the Spring once a good nectar flow is on and there is no expectation of any super cold stretches. My fingers are crossed that I lose no hives in the next couple months with this strange warm weather. (78! degrees today!). </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="8lov4-0-0"><span data-text="true">The bees are bringing in loads of pollen which stimulates brood rearing. Once there is brood in the hive to keep warm, the bees may prioritize this over leaving the brood to die, even if it means starving to death because the nectar stores are just a bit too far away to get to because of cold temperatures. The bees are clustered in a ball, and move and work as a unit in the hive, when the temperatures are in the 40s; in the 30s they will not break cluster. The queen is kept in the middle of the cluster to an amazing 95 degrees regardless of outside temps! </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="8lov4-0-0"><span data-text="true">So, strangely warm weather in winter can jump start Spring processes with the bees, just like it does with, for instance, </span></span><span data-offset-key="8lov4-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="8lov4-0-0"><span data-text="true">fruit trees</span></span>. The warm spell makes the creature think spring is here, and their cycle changes, then we get a cold snap...and flower buds freeze - meaning no fruit for the year, or bee queens lay eggs that metamorph into larvae that then need to be kept warm. </span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="8lov4-0-0"><span data-text="true">These two above hives are of genetics in their 8th winter, with no treatments, no re-queening... These are hives whose genetics are what I've been working for - bees who can do their thing without my coddling or manipulation, just gentle support, those who can withstand mites, etc. without my propping them up with artificial inputs or anthropocentric meddling - and will continue working for as I go into my 11th year of beekeeping... I knew when I began that this had to be possible and I am finally feeling vindicated in going against what I was taught (ie: you must put pesticides in the hive to control mites, you must kill the queen and replace her every two years, etc.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-size: large;">The call</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-size: large;">The caw</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-size: large;">It issued forth</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-size: large;"> from the Crow's mouth</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-size: large;"> but it was prayer</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-size: large;"> on my lips.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-size: large;">It pierced the morning</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-size: large;"> separating night from day. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-size: large;">I clung to its echoes</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-size: large;"> the way a bird clings</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-size: large;"> to a ferocious wind</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-size: large;"> no choice</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-size: large;"> as it cleaves its space from the air. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Slicing the indivisible</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-size: large;"> the way a moment</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-size: large;"> slices future from past</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-size: large;"> yet changes in each instant</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-size: large;"> always different, always the same.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-size: large;">I knew the day'd be bright</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-size: large;"> whether or not the sun shone</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-size: large;">for I'd spent my ~time~</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-size: large;"> in the blackness of that night. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">"Magic is just science we don’t understand yet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"> In creative work — creative work of <i>all kinds</i> — those who are
the world’s working artists </span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">are not trying to help the world go around,
but forward. Which is something altogether different </span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">from the ordinary.
Such work does not refute the ordinary. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">It is, simply, something else. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">Its labor requires a different outlook — a different set of priorities."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">“At worst, one is in motion; and at best, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Reaching no absolute, in which to rest, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #741b47;"> “You can recognize a pioneer by the arrows in his back.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">"But when I lean over the chasm of myself - </span></span><br />
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<span class="st"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. <br />Meanwhile the world goes on."</span><br /> - Mary Oliver</span></span></div>
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In this dark, inner time of the year, that coincides with this dark transitional period for our society, and this dark time for the entirety of the human race and world, as we know it, itself...<br />
I want to remind you, as I remind myself...<br />
that it's always darkest just before the dawn...the deepest Yin turns to Yang, <br />
Spring always follows the darkest, coldest (warmest?) Winter...<br />
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Here is a video that shows the seed of Spring that is within the Winter; revel in the exuberance of new bees taking their first flight and know that <i>we too shall fly</i>.<br />
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If you haven't yet, plant some seeds of the new, the next, <br />
for now is the time to nurture them in the dark of the earth...<br />
so they may burst forth with strongly rooted growth when the time is right... <br />
Within Yin is the seed of Yang and within Yang is the seed of Yin. Extremes turn into themselves.<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">"You should be angry. You must not be bitter. <br />Bitterness is like cancer.
It eats upon the host. <br />It doesn’t do anything to the object of its
displeasure. <br />So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance
it. <br />You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. <br />You talk it.
Never stop talking it." </span> - Maya Angelou.</span><br />
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said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope
for the wrong thing; <br />wait without love, for love would be love of the
wrong thing; <br />there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in
the waiting. <br />Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: <br />So
the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.” <br /> - T.S. Eliot</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="st">"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="st">but beautiful old people are works of art."</span></span></span></div>
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I've done some adbusting to show the double standards between men and women, and to play around with the rampant ageism found in advertising, especially in regard to women. Below is what advertisers use to represent an attractive 40s male - covered over with words used in women's advertising. These words seem ridiculous when placed over a man's face, but are so ubiquitous over a woman's that we think little of it. <br />
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The following image includes a picture of an "acceptable" woman of the *same* age; the type of woman whom these words would usually accompany. Note not a wrinkle in sight; the product must work! (After all photoshop has made the 40 y.o. look 20).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Skin of a baby! Forbid we show our lives on our faces like men do (and do with style)...lines from laughing not okay...</td></tr>
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and these ads for jeans, with their words switched sure seem strange, eh?...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fit and Flatter.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Erase our lives, our individuality? No thanks.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: large;">"I am not old…she said<br /> I am rare.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: large;"> I am the standing ovation<br /> At the end of the play.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: large;"> I am the retrospective<br /> Of my life as art</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: large;"> I am the hours<br /> Connected like dots<br /> Into good sense</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: large;"> I am the fullness<br /> Of existing.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: large;"> You think I am waiting to die…<br /> But I am waiting to be found</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: large;"> I am a treasure.<br /> I am a map.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: large;"> And these wrinkles are<br /> Imprints of my journey</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Ask me anything."</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47;">- Samantha Reynolds</span><br />
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Again, more pictures of men who aren't held to the same standards of youth, placed in an ad instead of the usual air-brushed women...it really makes the absurdity stand out:<br />
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and some close-ups so you can read the words:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Contains human albumin! Is this a weird, but accepted form of cannibalism?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">okayed by the FDA, it must be fine...</td></tr>
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And I leave you with this photo (which is not mine, photographer unknown) and <a href="http://alanalouisemay.com/blog/2016/9/8/fuck-beauty-im-an-all-powerful-motherfucker" target="_blank">this link to</a> a great article from which I've pulled this quote:<br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: large;">"For as long as women are distracted by society's dictations on 'beauty' they will never pose a threat to the system.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: large;">So long as a woman's attention is focused outwards, she will forever be divorced from her innate magic and power."</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">And Ladies, WE ARE immensely <a href="http://www.intuitivedance.org/single-post/2016/08/08/The-Aging-Woman-Syndrome-or-How-Women-Keep-Away-From-Their-Power" target="_blank">POWERFUL</a>.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span> </span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081702894763779145.post-8114869778284044372016-08-21T11:42:00.000-04:002017-01-26T17:51:22.060-05:00Self Portrait<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081702894763779145.post-40536944445408342542016-08-10T12:24:00.000-04:002017-01-26T17:52:02.586-05:00Woman<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'And She Calls' (from the archives, 2007)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Woman.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">You are so powerful.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Lesser men will try to smother that radiance,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">squash it by a multitude of means.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Be ever vigilant</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">and take necessary actions to shine on.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">It's been long enough.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">The time is now. </span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081702894763779145.post-45233800073208006472016-07-17T08:36:00.000-04:002016-07-17T08:36:33.059-04:00Contemplating Collapse<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Contemplating Collapse, 2015, full collage</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>“The test of one’s decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><i> - </i>Willa Cather </span></div>
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