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June 28, 2023
Good morning! It’s Wednesday, and this is our miracle poppy. It comes from a scraggly plant that has to endure brutal winters and compete with greedy…
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June 27, 2023
Good morning! It’s Tuesday. I came upon this hollowed-out tree trunk in the woods between our field and the pond, just above what I used to call “swamp…
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June 26, 2023
Good morning! It’s Monday, and the fireflies are enchanting us all with their amorous bioluminescence. Every evening, our field comes alive with…
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June 25, 2023
Watch now (1 min) | Good morning! It’s Sunday, and it’s the last Sunday that June can give us this year. We go, as always, outside. I’ve taken us to a…
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June 24, 2023
Good morning! It’s Saturday. During yesterday’s Respiteer gathering, we talked about techniques for reducing stress and getting grounded. I shared one…
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June 23 Get-Together: Stress reducers?
Hello, my dear Respiteers! And a very happy Friday to you. Today, while we sip rhubarb fizzes from our big comfy chairs on our terrace overlooking every…
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June 23, 2023
Good morning! It’s Friday. And on this day in 1868, a man named Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for his newfangled invention called the…
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June 22, 2023
Good morning! It’s Thursday, and yesterday, while I was waxing poetic about dandelions, the earth quietly slipped across the seasonal rubicon of…
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June 21, 2023
Good morning! It’s Wednesday. Setting aside the fact that the dandelion is considered a weed, I still think the dandelion’s seed head, or “pappus,” is a…
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