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Namaste, Elijah Cummings
Wendell Berry Is Still Ahead Of Us
PORT ROYAL, Kentucky — Wendell Berry doesn’t like screens. The 85-year-old writer doesn’t own a TV, computer, or cellphone. If you call the landline at his country home in Port Royal, you won’t reach an answering machine. When he reads this profile, it will be because someone else printed it out. And, if his general approach to life is any indication, he will probably take his time. (Vox)
Why Is The World So LOUD!
Want to Get Healthier? Hack Your Five Senses.
What Is the Cost of College Doing to Families? – The Atlantic
And what that has meant for America’s middle-class families
— Read on www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/09/college-cost-indebted-zaloom/597181/
Do Plants Have Something to Say?
Dr. Gagliano’s scientific research, which has broken boundaries in the field of plant behavior and signaling. Currently at the University of Sydney in Australia, she has published a number of studies that support the view that plants are, to some extent, intelligent. Her experiments suggest that they can learn behaviors and remember them. Her work also suggests that plants can “hear” running water and even produce clicking noises, perhaps to communicate. New York Times
Thoreau, Aug 23, 1845
I find an instinct in me conducting to a mystic spiritual life, and also another to a primitive savage life.
Toward evening, as the world waxes darker, I am permitted to see the woodchuck stealing across my path, and tempted to seize and devour it. The wildest, most desolate scenes are strangely familiar to me.’
Apple celebrates America’s national parks this August
The True Story of Wild Rice, North America’s Most Misunderstood Grain
Almost all “wild rice” is cultivated, but the real thing grows freely on the lakes of northern Minnesota
— Read on www.saveur.com/true-story-wild-rice-north-americas-most-misunderstood-grain/
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