The Dashwoods were our first flock of chickens. They are now over 5 years old and as of this last Monday, only two remain. They were all fine when James ushered them into the coop Sunday night but sadly, we found Margaret dead Monday morning. A black australorp who was very noisy and had vocalizations …
Author: Stefanie
Avid reader, gardener, librarian, cyclist, and vegan.
Of Droughts and Rabbits
Two weeks ago we had two days of rain and I thought, at last the drought is over! The garden did too. And for several days after we were all perky and happy. The beans started growing taller, the pumpkins began to vine, the corn shot up two feet. But we have not had rain …
Attention and Climate Change
First, I have to say thank you to everyone for all of your insightful and thought-provoking comments on the topic of attention. They have been grist for the mill, or like that extra cup of coffee I allow myself sometimes that sends me into overdrive and sets my mind whirling. I ended my last post …
Happy Solstice!
Happy Solstice y’all! Today for Solstice we got rain, a lovely gift because along with heat we’ve also been having a drought. The drought is so bad that the Mississippi River, the main source of water for the Twin Cities, is just a few inches above its lowest recorded level in 1976. The rain is …
The Meaning of Attention
A few weeks ago I wrote about the podcast with Maryanne Wolf and Sven Birkerts in which they talked about what might happen if we all read more books, and it basically turned out to be about attention. I mentioned I had been thinking much about attention and had more to say and then proceeded …
