THE GIFT FOX

Jess Feldman poetry; Gift Fox Quilts & Crafts

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Things To Come, by Mercy Wizard

3 track album

Mercy Wizard’s newest EP

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Today’s the day.

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Pomegranate, Kale, and Wild Rice Salad with Walnuts and Feta - Pinch of Yum

Pomegranate, Kale, and Wild Rice Salad, with walnuts and Feta cheese and a simple homemade dressing. So healthy, so good!

Hands down one of the best salads. Have it as the meal or make it a side dish. Good for breakfast/brunch (add a poached or fried egg on top!), lunch and dinner. Fine to eat next-day for work lunch. Add/substitute pear or apple slices for pomegrante. Also get that soft Bulgarian feta block in brine if you can!

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The Geranium

When I put her out, once, by the garbage pail, She looked so limp and bedraggled, So foolish and trusting, like a sick poodle, Or a wizened aster in late September, I brought her back in again For a new routine— Vitamins, water, and whatever Sustenance seemed sensible At the time: she'd lived So long on gin, bobbie pins, half-smoked cigars, dead beer, Her shriveled petals falling On the faded carpet, the stale Steak grease stuck to her fuzzy leaves. (Dried-out, she creaked like a tulip.) The things she endured!— The dumb dames shrieking half the night Or the two of us, alone, both seedy,Me breathing booze at her, She leaning out of her pot toward the window.

Near the end, she seemed almost to hear me— And that was scary— So when that snuffling cretin of a maid Threw her, pot and all, into the trash-can, I said nothing. But I sacked the presumptuous hag the next week, I was that lonely. Theodore Roethke

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The Rock Garden in Chandigarh, India - “also known as Nek Chand's Rock Garden after its founder Nek Chand Saini, a government official who started the garden secretly in his spare time in 1957. Today it is spread over an area of 40 acres (16 ha). It is completely built of industrial and home waste and discarded items.” (Wikipedia)

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‎Brave, Not Perfect with Reshma Saujani: Yeshimabeit Milner on Apple Podcasts

‎Show Brave, Not Perfect with Reshma Saujani, Ep Yeshimabeit Milner - Nov 7, 2018

Really great interview with Yeshimabeit Milner, founder of Data for Black Lives, on how they’re using data to make a difference. 

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Mood.

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As student loan bills have climbed, incomes haven't. The average hourly wage in 2018 had no more purchasing power than it did in 1978, according to the Pew Research Center.

from “Why people with student loans are refusing to pay it” CNBC article about activist Sandy Nurse and the Debt Collective 

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Save it to the bookmarks.

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‎Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio: Fake Food: The Billion Dollar Business of Food Fraud on Apple Podcasts

‎Show Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio, Ep Fake Food: The Billion Dollar Business of Food Fraud - Dec 27, 2019

“There is more money made out of food fraud than there is in narcotics.”

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Discover The Horse

Join Alyssa on her Quest as she travels around the world in order to become the first person to ride and document every breed of horse!

There’s a woman out there right now trying to ride every breed of horse and I am so in love with this quest. 

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On the radar: Matamata Turtles

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You watch people get pregnant and know they’ll be emotionally and intellectually absent for 20 years. Thought, knowledge, adult conversation and vital political action are all put on hold while this needless perpetuation of the species is prioritised. Having babies is a strong impulse, a forgivable one, but it’s also just a habit, a tradition, like weddings or putting butter on popcorn.

Lucy Ellmann in recent interview with The Guardian

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Christeen and Paul have 24 koalas in their house and will likely end up with more

The husband and wife team behind Koalas In Care are treating koalas that have been injured or left homeless by the bushfires in NSW. At the moment there are two dozen koalas in their house.

Koalas are burning up in Australia and this couple is taking action to save them. Give them a hand with a donation: Koalas In Care

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Are you?

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The Celebrity Tortoise Breakup That Rocked the World

In 2011, after nearly a century together, Galápagos tortoises Bibi and Poldi called it quits. We still don’t know why.

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First Listen: Jessica Pratt, 'Quiet Signs'

Pratt's music has an idyllic, tranquil, elusive quality. In her realm, the smallest sighs or vocal gestures can unlock alternate narratives, meanings, implications.

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