Tag: trees
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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn
I’m getting old now and although I don’t regret the slow accumulation of the lately-wilting years, I’ve noticed that a lot of people do -or at least say they do. I’m not sure how well they’ve thought it through, however; even if they somehow managed to continue their lives in a candy shop, they’d soon […]
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In scorn of Nature, Art gave lifeless life
Age is an artist that continues to paint experience after experience over the worn and tattered scenes that are no more. For most of us, however, the pentimento is obvious, and never quite disappears beneath the crust of what we insist on adding. And yet, we continue to paint in hopes we’ve got it right […]
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We will build a wall…
It’s humbling to realize that, despite my age, there are still some things I’ve never heard of. Or, is it because of my age…? I suppose I could be forgiven for being unaware –I almost said uninterested– in things that trend nowadays, the inference being that, lacking in statistical significance, those things which appeal to […]
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African Monsoon, African Union, Afrrica, boundaries, Burkina Faso, Chris Reiij, climatic oscillations, desertification, drought, edges, Faidherbia albida, Garrity, Global Environmental Facility, Great Green Wall, Great Green Wall Initiative, Holocene epoch, Jessica Tierney, Khalil Gibran, Mohamed Bakaar, Niger, Richard Sr. Barbe Baker, Richard St. Barbe Baker, Science Advances, Serving in Mission, Smithsonian Magazine, sub-Saharan Africa, the Sahel, Tony Rinaudo, trees, trending, United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, University of Arizona, World Bank, World Resources Institute -
Treemail?
Treemail? You’ve got to be kidding… Or is this simply a natural progression from Emailing your fridge, or telling the front door of your house to lock when you’re at work -something that in four or five years will be so banal and unsurprising that pointing it out as interesting will ensure that you are […]
musings on women's health 