Category: Random
Me talkin to myself
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I’ve always loved the Little Free Library practice, where people build cute waterproof wood boxes with a couple of shelves filled with books that neighbors can take from and/or add to. In our neighborhood there are many. But one neighbor chose a different option, stocking a cute little box with art, not books. It brightened…
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Some things that caught my eye on a rainy January walk on a trail that skirts the Coast Fork Willamette River at the Mount Pisgah Arboretum: Catkins on an unknown kind of tree. I know alders have them. Also hazelnuts. It’s hard to recognize trees without their leaves. Then, shrubby snowberry in front of a…
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Travel guru, guide and inspiration Rick Steves gave a great interview recently to the New York Times. He’s promoting his new book (out in February), On the Hippie Trail. Steves revisits — using journals he kept at the time — a 1970’s trip he took that inspired his life-long love affair with travel and with…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 