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"thanatology in the garden"

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HOAs suck but this is the beginnings of redemptive potential:

so if you don't know the history of home owner's associations... this is a quick and easy catch-up read.

i've long hated HOAs and their weird obsessiveness with the appearance of neighbors lawns being ecologically boring. a lawn of nothing but manicured grass is nicer than seeing the nature wonder of what grows on its own? no wonder kids don't play on their yards except to trample it!

anyway, getting off my sizeable pedestal... i was reading articles about how the future is just basically endless HOAs no matter where we turn, so people have started trying to understand how to harness the nit-picky reach of modern HOAs to at least have some ability to be kind to the environment (which if you know me, you'll know my diatribe about healthy soils equating healthy souls, cuz all those contaminants in our green carpet grass lawn yard just slowly fuck us up- sorry, ranting again!).

MOVING ON. here are some articles that talked about how HOAs could do environmental good:

1. HOAs could spread sustainable yards!

2. HOAs could help the wildlife

here's to the future

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DEATH/GRIEF

In February of 2015, when I was 32, one of my best friends, Ruth, who was also 32, died of colon cancer.  In November of that same year my m

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For Black History Month, Remarkable Women and Men We Overlooked Since 1851 (Published 2019)

The ragtime master Scott Joplin and the blues singer Gladys Bentley are among many black men and women whose deaths The New York Times overl

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Overlooked

The poet Sylvia Plath and the novelist Charlotte Brontë. Ida B. Wells, the anti-lynching activist. These extraordinary people — and so many

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Joe Heller Obituary (1937 - 2019) Hartford Courant

View Joe Heller's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.

what a lovely (and hilarious) tribute to a hilarious-sounding man. this is one of the reasons i am very into obituaries lately. i do think they can be used to help facilitate more avenues of communal memory-sharing and grieving.

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Forensic botanists: The science of using plants to find bodies

Scientists are studying how decomposing human bodies influence the flora around them, applying the research to forensics.

FORENSIC BOTANY? if these are glimpses of the future, i am ALL about it

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The difference between a weed and a flower is a judgement.

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With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?– Oscar Wilde

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Wildflower photo gallery with plants grouped according to families by the author of Botany in a Day.

botany in a day - learning to identify plants by their families

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Tree Identification Guide - What Tree is that? Tree Musketeers

It’s easy to go through life with what our third-grade teacher taught us about trees. What we ‘half remember’ is enough for us to happily re

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Woman Arborist Heals Trees, Parks, Souls

Tsukamoto Konami, Japan's first female certified tree doctor, has treated and transplanted hundreds of giant trees, including 130-year-old w

who i want to be when i grow up more on her

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A Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Camille Dungy Talks to Desiree Cooper About "Mothering While Art-ing" - Mutha Magazine

It’s about time that someone wrote a guidebook to “mothering while arting.” I’ve been calling myself a writer for most of my life, but only

travels through motherhood, race, nature.

her book was amazing and this interview was as well. her way with words is delicious

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pondering Uli, the near-extinct art form of Igbo women in Nigeria

uli was an art form named after the indigo dyes used to make the paintings. it was done by women, like Eziafo Okaro, who would painting on both bodies and walls. the paintings were supposed to evoke “nature and issues in existence”.

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5 big myths about wildfire

thinking about wildfires

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What it’s Like to Spend a Year Gardening the Grave of a Stranger

At Woodlands Cemetery in Philadelphia, green-thumbed volunteers participate in a unique program.

I so badly want this to be a program that every cemetery has. Not necessarily victorian-era gardens, but just grave gardens.