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Strange and wondrous, how Mother Nature runs riot on our end of Prairie Creek. A channel cut through gumbo clay That crumbles and tumbles day by day Making crevice deep and wide For meager muddy stream. Yet still a sluice of moisture nurtures Nature in her springtime...
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America has been described as a nation overfed and undernourished. The “western diet” as it’s commonly called is typically characterized by a high intake of meat, sugar, saturated fats, and refined grains. Many of the food products on the grocery store shelves,...
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So, this week’s question of the week is: How are you affected by the rhythm of days, seasons and years? Here in the tundra – woops I mean longest winter ever in Nebraska – I find this question interesting. We are currently waiting for the weather to warm up to get a...
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I observed a Carolina Wren for the first time 23 years ago. I was participating in the Massachusetts Audubon Bird-A-Thon. While I was relatively new to birding then, the fact that I had never had Carolina Wren in Massachusetts was not due to by fledgling status at...
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“Then God said, ‘Let the earth put forth vegetation…'” (Genesis 1.11) In some parts of the world this is a flower: In my neighborhood it’s a weed. And, in the basics of cultural grammar, weeds are “bad.” Flowers are...
