Opinion

Pruning is generally good for trees because it promotes their health. It can also improve the tree’s size and form. However, consider waiting to prune until drought conditions improve.

A few weeks ago I started a series on seven words that can possibly help us make sense of –and master – the crazy, unpredictable world we live in.

When I think of the Olympic Games, I think of American sports commentator, Jim McKay, at the summer Olympics of 1976 in Montreal. Wearing a turtleneck under his polyester sport coat, the man leaned into the camera one evening and said all manner of meaningful things about THE TRIUMPH OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT. A breath caught in my six-year-old chest because his words, vast and laced with the fear of God, rattled me. And I loved it. Also, I got it in my young head that Quebec was a communist country where her people were surely oppressed—and wasn’t that all so very sad?—but I digress.