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Good morning! It’s Tuesday. While we were all distracted by that leaping dog yesterday, the sun quietly crossed above the Earth’s equator, nudging the Northern Hemisphere into spring and Southern Hemisphere into autumn. To be fair absolutely fair about it, though, Mother Nature…
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Good morning! It’s Monday. May we all remain peacefully unperturbed this week, no matter how powerful the distraction. “Quiet minds cannot be perplexed…
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March 19, 2023Watch now (1 min) | Good morning! It’s Sunday, and we are, of course, outside. We’ve tackled the easy half of The Hill That Requires a Commitment…
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Good morning! It’s Saturday. There’s something about this time of year that has me craving biscuits even more than usual, which is already on the…
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March 17 Get-Together: Three ThingsGreetings, salutations, and happy Friday! The doors to our springtime Respiteer pavilion are wide open. Won’t you come inside and join me? I’ll …
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Good morning! It’s Friday. Yesterday I spotted this lone cluster of daffodils doing reconnaissance on a south-facing slope. They were looking around to…
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Good morning! It’s Thursday, and some small neighborhood animal has a message for us. “If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads…
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Good morning! It’s Wednesday. And what this day needs, if I dare say so myself, is this short clip of a chimpanzee sharing its apple with a tortoise…
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