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War on weeds
One of the fun experiences I had this summer was a lovely Saturday morning spent visiting six beautiful private gardens, all part of our town’s garden club “tour”. From my vantage point, every garden on this tour was amazing. These gardens looked their best – the flowers well-placed, buoyant and colorful, the mulch perfectly applied,…
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Alignment
When I became a teacher, I needed to dive deeper into my own native tongue so I could teach it to students unfamiliar with English. I began a habit of using a dictionary to gain word knowledge and encouraged my students to do the same as they were learning new words. The definition of alignment…
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Sent Sparrows
Setting: an ordinary day at work, in a basement office at The Salvation Army, in a somewhat drab brick building on a busy corner in Hartford CT. In this office, there are two windows that are level with the ground, since I work in the “garden level” (AKA basement) of the building. I hear noise…
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Lenses
Finally, my new glasses, tailored to exactly correct my vision, had arrived. I was so excited to pick them up at my optometrists’ office. It wasn’t that I was unable to see anything. I am grateful that while I cannot see perfectly without glasses, I do have. To not see a sunset, words, a baby’s…
Consider the Lilies 