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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
Tag Archives: Death
Gradually and then Suddenly
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Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Feeling Clearly, Mortality
Tagged Community, Death, History
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Timing isn’t Everything
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Tagged Attitudes, Death, Poetry, Trees
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Who Writes This Stuff?
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Posted in Feeling Clearly, Language and Communication, Mortality
Tagged Attitudes, Business, Death
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A Good Run
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MAiD: And Again
Excerpts from two more pieces on MAiD. Continue reading
MAiD: Again
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If It Be Now
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Posted in Feeling Clearly, Mortality, New Perspectives
Tagged Attitudes, Community, Death
12 Comments
For Just a Second
Sometimes that’s all that’s needed. Continue reading
Not a Given
The clock is ticking. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Mortality, Thinking Broadly, Through the Calendar
Tagged Aging, Attitudes, Death
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