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September 2014

September 30, 2014

A Summer Memory

for Maggie and Lewis As the dimming fall welcomes me back, a summer memory...

April 2014

April 22, 2014

Earth Day Notes from New Orleans

Last week the Center hosted two groups of youth, one primarily people of color, one...

April 15, 2014

Earth: Our Deep Home Place

The Greater New Orleans Unitarian Universalist cluster gathered in an oak -filled park on Sunday...

April 09, 2014

Pulling Weeds

I don’t know about where you are, but here in California we have hit the...

February 2014

February 11, 2014

Bee Wise

This winter has devastated my sub-tropical garden in New Orleans. I was out of town...

November 2013

November 06, 2013

Raking Leaves

People regularly say to me that they wouldn’t want to live in California, because they...

October 2013

October 19, 2013

A Garden Prayer

That shrimp plant so determined to be seen poking through the ginger and the fig...

October 15, 2013

Reflections on death from the garden

This time of year, as we approach Halloween, The Day of the Dead, and All...

September 2013

September 28, 2013

Rejoice?

First, gather friends and family. Together, build a structure with at least three sides. Roof...

July 2013

July 07, 2013

Weeding Out Racism

I’m a gardener in the upper Midwest, so in July I spend a lot of...

March 2013

March 24, 2013

Longing for the Weeds

Hard to believe we’re turning towards April in Minnesota, where I live. Out my window,...

February 2013

February 13, 2013

Kinds of Love

Happy Valentine’s Day. If, you know, that’s your thing. If you happen to be one...

September 2012

September 29, 2012

Be Here Later, or Be There Now?

I finally cleaned the back yard the other day, a task I had spent several...

September 02, 2012

Friends: The Spice of Life

If most of our life consists of basic repetitive tasks that are simple and predictable—some...

August 2012

August 05, 2012

August: The Year’s Midlife Crisis

I think August is the midlife...

June 2012

June 04, 2012

Spiritual Drought & Restoration

I have to be mindful of the baskets of flowers that hang below the eaves....

May 2012

May 27, 2012

Give It All Away! Wisdom of the plants

These days, as spring turns to summer, the garden is insistent with one message: Give...