Plant Terminology-Another Language
A good thing to do on these cold winter days is to cuddle up with your plant catalogs but to some, the terms used could sound like a foreign language!
A good thing to do on these cold winter days is to cuddle up with your plant catalogs but to some, the terms used could sound like a foreign language!
For the last 14 months I’ve been anticipating it. Waiting. Knowing it was lurking in the corners or behind a large, formidable rock. I figured I was immersed in grief and that would lower my defenses and I’d be overcome eventually by some sort of bug – COVID or otherwise.
Mr. and Mrs. Iverson’s letter to the editor in last week’s paper was more than a little concerning. First of all, let me say that I have compassion for both of you, and all those who have lost loved ones during the Christmas season. I’m sorry for your loss. I knew Myron too, and truthfully, it is hard for me to understand how people who claim to love him so much would choose to publish his very private health information, and drag his name down, in hopes of pushing a personal view onto others. You’re definitely entitled to your opinions, and I respect people with opinions that differ from my own, but dishonoring someone in his or her death is just never really the right thing to do. I hope you’ll consider that moving forward.
OK, I have a project. I used to write about these all the time but the last few years, life has been the project. As I slowly assimilated to a new lifestyle, space opened inside my mind for creativity. Thus, I began a project. I talked a little about this project recently. I have a love for things from the farm. My collections are almost always about collecting my personal history or representing it in such a way that the memory becomes real. Hay trolleys remind me of helping my dad load hay into the barn. The little trinkets I find around this farm remind me of the people who have lived here before me. I also like cupolas, they are like a crown for a building and make me feel full and like I am a part of history.
There’s something about a new year that often has me reflecting on time. I guess that’s fairly natural. For many of us, January is a time of assessing priorities, setting goals, wrapping up the old year and planning for what’s to come.
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