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Living with Less
“Have nothing in your house you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” William Morris
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Winter Blues
“The blue of the sky is one of the most special colors in the world, because the color is deep but see-through both at the same time.” Cynthia Kokonata, Kira-Kira
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Winter’s Small Splendors
“Walk through the garden’s dormant splendor. Say only, thank you. Thank you. Ross Gay, from his poem, “Thank You”
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Meadow Moods
“Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of…
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The Year of Persistent Possibility
“Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” St. Francis of Assisi
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Save or Savor
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” E.B. White
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Still Life with Pallet Tree and Mourning Dove
“Winter perches like a bird; wings tucked in so the soul is heard.” Angie Weiland-Crosby
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The First Frost
“First frost meant letting go, so it was always reason to celebrate.” Sarah Addison Allen
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Indigenous?
“On Mother Earth, we’re all struggling to understand: what does it mean to be indigenous to Earth?” Woman Stands Shining (Pat McCabe)
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Praise November
“Praise the light of late November,the thin sunlight that goes deep in the bones…Praise what little there’s left:the small boats of milkweed pods, husks, hulls,shells… the meadow of dried weeds… the quilt of…