Summer work

So if you’ve followed this blog since its inception, a scant seven months ago, then you know my husband and I had been planning to move on or about Solstice.  Well, we are finally in!  Not quite settled, but the ratio of cardboard boxes to visible floor is definitely heading in the right direction.
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Posted on July 17, 2010 at 4:47 pm by margot · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Critical Timing; or, of fish and flowering

This past week was one in which the return to life in this corner of the universe was early.  I’m trying super-hard not to panic about such things; maybe it’s just a weather-ish fluctuation.  It has been a beautiful, warm, dry spring — the antithesis of last year’s waterlogged start to summer.  But I can’t [...]

Posted on June 1, 2010 at 5:39 pm by margot · Permalink · One Comment
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Dandelion oil

I’ve been away for a bit — consumed by family matters.  But happily, the world is once again spinning at a familiar and manageable rate, and I am having a bit more time for ordinary affairs. Yesterday, those ordinary affairs were botanical in nature — planting lots of peas and lupine, and preparing dandelion oil.
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Posted on May 12, 2010 at 2:29 pm by margot · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Time in the Times

Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation.
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.
(T. S. Eliot, [...]

Posted on January 5, 2010 at 4:33 pm by margot · Permalink · One Comment
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