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7th Generation Gardening Group Seeds or Plants?
In days of yore the only way to have a garden was to start start your own seeds in flats indoors or plant seeds directly into the garden. This has still the advantages of being able to select the varieties … Continue reading
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First Parish Church 7th Principle Gardening Group
March 14, 2021 This group is a part of the Welcoming All Group at First Parish Church of Groton, Massachusetts. The group is open to anyone from anywhere but the gardening experience of most of us comes from the Northeast. … Continue reading
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I’m Glad I’m Not Young, Black, Female and Living in the South
By now everyone has read about Marshae Jones and Ebony Jamison, two young, black women living in Alabama. Ms. Jones was five months pregnant and, during an argument about the father of Ms. Jones baby, Ms. Jamison pulled out a … Continue reading
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The ANTI-SLAVERY LAWS WE NEED NOW
I have thought long and hard about posting this but I have become weary of the wimpy response women have about abortion. Please understand that most of the women in the US today have grown up being able to … Continue reading
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A MODEST PROPOSAL or RUN FOR OUR LIVES
On August 18, 2020 women in the United States will have had the vote for one hundred years. I propose that from now until then and including the presidential election in November of 2020 that no woman in the United … Continue reading
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50th Coming Home
Coming home…. I’m on the plane heading for Iceland now, it is minus 65.5 out side the plane and we are at 38K feet. We talked about this trip for years, planned for it, saved for it but at the … Continue reading
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50th Westminster…Abby and Cathedral
When we ventured out of our hotel the next morning we found we were within walking distance to Westminster Cathedral and Westminster Abby: the Cathedral is Roman Catholic and the Abby is Church of England. We visited the Cathedral first … Continue reading
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50th Jane Austen and Chawton House
From Canterbury we drove south west to the town where Jane Austen lived and wrote her stories. The area is very beautiful and seemingly rural but actually quite densely populated. Some kind tourists from Cambridge took our photo outside Jane’s … Continue reading
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50th Pilgrimage To Canterbury
Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote, The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licóur Of which vertú engendred is the flour; Our pilgramage to Canterbury to pause and reflect where Thomas … Continue reading
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50th Durham and York
I shall begin with a disclaimer….By now you are aware that Eric and I have visited a number of places of worship starting with Stonehenge, then Salisbury, then Glouster, then the temple at Hadrian’s Wall. There was no place of … Continue reading
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