At the end of the day, it’s because there are people who are deeply committed and are fearless. And are not going to be stopped. That’s how history happens. ~ Ted Howard ~ It was seeing the black curving lines of the fading flower above that made me think occasional Halloween posts might be fun. […]
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Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we love. Terry Tempest Williams I treasure finding beauty everywhere I go. And having it find me. The chocolate lily above is my favorite picture of 2018. I love both the flower itself and the spray of gold light behind it. It also
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For the past two years, I’ve celebrated September 1, the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, with a collection of quotes from Pope Francis’s 2015 encyclical, Laudato Si. It was he who launched the day in 2016, joining a tradition started by the Orthodox Church in 1989. This has grown into the
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For 150 years lichen has been known to be a combination of two life forms. The outside is a fungal matrix, rather like the crust of a baguette, which gives structure and protection to the softer, more filamentous inside, formed by one of the algae family, or occasionally a cyanobacteria. These latter two provide nutrients
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This photo of my refrigerator, with its usual groceries, though more attractively arranged than usual, represents some of the best and most exciting news I’ve ever heard. It goes back to a question environmentalist Paul Hawken posed: what can we do to reverse global warming? Standard research typically focuses on ways to slow down global
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