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The Month is June, The Year is 2021 and Summer is here

The Month is June, The Year is 2021 and Summer is here

“Deep summer is where laziness finds respectability.” Sam Keen

Sam Keen is a wonderful American author and philosopher whose quote about the lazy days of summer made me go through my photo archives. I recall this anonymous reader at the Botanical Garden at the University of Georgia. She demonstrates a perfect combination of summer, laziness and respectability.

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The Month is April, The Year is 2021 and Spring Brings New Life

The Month is April, 2021, The Year is 2021 and Spring Brings New Life

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” Margaret Atwood

How can you not admire the writing and creativity of Margaret Atwood, the marvelous Canadian poet and writer? Her thoughts on spring certainly reflect mine, and those of most of you reading this. So, let’s get out and paint our fingernails with soil.


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The Month is February, the Year is 2021 and I See A Brighter Light Ahead

I See A Brighter Light Ahead

It was hard to belt out Auld Lang Syne with feeling when there was no one with whom to celebrate the New Year. Such was the Year of The Beast!

Not only on New Year’s Eve but on nearly every other reason when, in normal times, friends and family would revel in their company. The words, made popular by Scottish poet Robert Burns, is “For the sake of Old (Auld) Times”. Seems to me that the demise of 2020 should have been toasted everywhere. Finally, the year 2021.


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