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I’ve said it before. I don’t have grass, I have weeds. Weeds that sometimes have pretty flowers like the pictured wild violets. When I was ten or younger, one of the cartoons I watched on Saturday mornings was The Jetsons. That’s what I thought the year 2000 would be like. How innocent! I saw the…

I’ve been outside, clearing the raised beds and the flower beds. Last year, I didn’t plant the raised beds. I will always wonder why the raised beds grow weeds and grass better than vegetables. I thought I cleared the raised beds last year, but obviously I didn’t, for there were saplings which had taken hold…

A red sunrise can mean that a high pressure system (good weather) has already passed, thus indicating that a storm system (low pressure) may be moving to the east. A morning sky that is a deep, fiery red can indicate that there is high water content in the atmosphere. So, rain could be on its…

I grew up with the yellow spring flower everyone I knew named “buttercups”. At some point in my life’s journey, I learned that those early spring yellow flowers were actually “daffodils”. My mother had a row of buttercups mixed with white narcissi. I never liked the narcissus because of its cloying smell which one couldn’t…

Weeds are just plants growing in the wrong place; vermin are animals (sometimes really cute critters) who live and wreak havoc in human occupied spaces. I think raccoons are cute. They are very intelligent which is why they can sometimes be such a nuisance. The raccoon that frequented my deck decided that it wanted to…

Any society that has no firm definition of right and wrong is doomed, for unchecked personal freedom leads to dissension and dissension to collapse of the tenuous social contract that existed. Do we not remember the wild, wild west?The psychotic males who determined manliness in terms of the number of notches on their guns? The…

Captain Ibrahim Traoré, 37 years old, is the interim leader of Burkina Faso. France, colonizer has been sent packing and he is overseeing a thriving economy. Now, if he can avoid being corrupted by power and continue to care for his people–that would be a change that other leaders could emulate. Burkina Faso has achieved…

Love, any kind of love, is a luxury in a society that does not value one’s worth. I cannot tell them in person, for as Shakespeare said…they have shuffled off this mortal coil…but I thank my parents for taking care of me. I understand that was all the bandwidth they had. They grew up with…

Mind doodle! Just because I don’t want to dwell on reality. Not today! Intersex/hermaphrodite–someone who is born with a reproductive system that doesn’t fit the typical definition of male or female. Where am I going with this? have you heard of Ophiuchus? Some years ago, I read an article about the thirteenth sign of the Zodiac and…

Widow makers–that’s how one may reference the fallen branches in the woods, the forests, anywhere there is a tree! As you know, we live in a patriarchy and only males walk in the woods–therefore, widow makers. Also, if you happen to be hit by a falling branch, most likely you will die or wish you…