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Lighting a Candle
“They keep our vegetables fresh for three to four weeks, depending on the type of crop. They are very good in a hot climate such as ours [Sudan] where fruit and vegetables get spoiled in one day,” she told Practical Action. “Since I learned how to make zeer pots, our life has been so much better.”
Keeping fold cold without refrigeration
Posted: 2025 Feb 14
Photo Memory of the Week
Posted: 2025 Feb 13
Poetry of the Week
Roadrunner
- by Sharlot Mabridth HallOut of the western chaparral
Where the raw, new highways run,
He flashes swift as a rainbow flame
And races the morning sun.
He perks and preens with lifted crest,
He dances, heel and toe.
He will jig and flirt in the roadway dirt —
Then — off like a shot he'll go.Posted: 2025 Feb 13
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But First
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