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74The Joys of a Moonlight Garden
The daughter of Madame Butterfly, Akina, once invited me to visit her moonlight garden. Now at the time, I couldn't imagine that seeing someone's garden in the light of the full moon, but then I'd already...
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79Making Herbal Papers
I have to admit that I came to making herbal papers at a late stage in life. The first time I came home to my step-daughter using my new blender to prepare plant pulp, I wanted to beat her to a pulp for the...
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83What Happens To All The Gold
At least once a day, my husband feels the need to inform me of the price of gold. It's part of his daily witnessing and running commentary on how much this world is going to hell-in-a-hand basket, with the...
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87Let Us Show Our Kindness Now
In today's times of troubles, it is easy to forget that each and everyone of us has the capacity to be pilgrims of mercy and make a difference in the world around in both big and small ways. In thinking about...
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88Never Mow Your Yard Again
Today, just about everyone is looking for ways to reduce their expenses, yet almost four hundred years ago, Francis Bacon wrote in his An Essay of Gardens (1625) one answer to a substantial savings to most...
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81Sir Humphry Davy's Laughter
One of the great men of science of the eighteenth century was Humphry Davy (1778-1829). By the time he was twenty, Davy had become a laboratory assistant at Dr. Beddoes' Pneumatic Institution, a sort of...
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86To Make A Noise - The Story of Bells
The word bell comes from an Anglo-Saxon word meaning "to bellow" or to "make a noise." Bells in war and peace, fire and flood, have long been useful because their voices could be heard far and wide....
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80Footpaths In The Air
Bridges of simple rope. Ancient people used vines. Today, similar bridges are of steel wire. Anyway you look at them (my opinion) sheer terror. Something To Behold The Bridges of Yesteryear Like a number...
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73At Euell And Freda's Wild Party
I suppose we all have our stories of the wild parties of our youth. Some of us were lucky to have survived them with our dignity intact, or some other self imposed calamity not marring us for life. My...
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86The Great Scientists Of The Seventeen Hundreds
A meeting in London of great leaders in science in the eighteenth century. I've always wanted to stroll down Nightingale Lane in London, the trouble is that I want to do it by time travel back to over two...
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