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where: Portland, Maine, near the Fore River<br />
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latin name: <i>Erythronium americanum</i><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05988060606297986144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042295857632824482.post-14410009208516799722012-04-28T10:55:00.001-04:002012-04-28T10:55:10.456-04:00wildflower collection: false rue anemone<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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where: our back yard (never saw it before this year; we cut 13 tall pines in 2010)<br />
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when: April 28, 2012 <br />
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latin name: <i>Enemion biternatum</i><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05988060606297986144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042295857632824482.post-75765413536795279542012-02-07T18:48:00.001-05:002012-02-07T18:48:52.464-05:00Anthropic principle<div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">"Our universe is what it is because we are here. The situation could be likened to a school of intelligent fish who one day began wondering why their world is completely filled with water. Many of the fish, the theorists, hope to prove that the entire cosmos necessarily has to be filled with water. For years, they put their minds to the task but can never quite seem to prove their assertion. Then, a wizened group of fish postulates that maybe they are fooling themselves. Maybe there are, they suggest, many other worlds, some of them completely dry, and everything in between."</span><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.300781); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.234375); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.234375); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></font></div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.300781); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.234375); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.234375); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">The Accidental Universe</span></font></div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0898438); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.300781); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.234375); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.234375); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Alan Lightman</span></font></div><div>Harpers magazine</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05988060606297986144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042295857632824482.post-27719728162792911472011-11-25T13:13:00.001-05:002011-11-25T13:15:22.102-05:00orchid drawings by my Aunt Sarah<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Jd7zVqmLCPE/Ts_ZVCp7fzI/AAAAAAAABO8/bXnjFJn_pic/s1600/dendrobium+cucumerinum.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Jd7zVqmLCPE/Ts_ZVCp7fzI/AAAAAAAABO8/bXnjFJn_pic/s320/dendrobium+cucumerinum.png" width="249" /></a></div><i>Dendrobium cucumerinum</i><br />
“The Cucumber Orchid”<br />
(Australia)<br />
© Sarah Stifler Jesup <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oLUJdFAPZsc/Ts_ZWnTDQuI/AAAAAAAABPM/FaN44tff61I/s1600/oncidium+arizajulianum.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oLUJdFAPZsc/Ts_ZWnTDQuI/AAAAAAAABPM/FaN44tff61I/s320/oncidium+arizajulianum.png" width="269" /></a></div><i>Oncidium arizajulianum</i><br />
2-14-69<br />
(Dominican Republic)<br />
© Sarah Stifler Jesup<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Qosj0559lJ0/Ts_ZXdLac2I/AAAAAAAABPU/ZBYByFy5M3w/s1600/oncidium+bicallosum.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Qosj0559lJ0/Ts_ZXdLac2I/AAAAAAAABPU/ZBYByFy5M3w/s320/oncidium+bicallosum.png" width="253" /></a></div><i>Oncidium bicallosum</i><br />
(Central America)<br />
©Sarah Stifler Jesup<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vYxiXko1jT0/Ts_ZYCQowHI/AAAAAAAABPc/MYPiQUqiyp8/s1600/paphiopedilum+niveum.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vYxiXko1jT0/Ts_ZYCQowHI/AAAAAAAABPc/MYPiQUqiyp8/s320/paphiopedilum+niveum.png" width="205" /></a></div><i>Paphiopedilum niveum</i><br />
(Malay Archipelago)<br />
3-29-69 <br />
© Sarah Stifler Jesup<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CurrJxvT_yo/Ts_ZV-U5YAI/AAAAAAAABPE/NryjsMu45aM/s1600/dichaea+ciliolata.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CurrJxvT_yo/Ts_ZV-U5YAI/AAAAAAAABPE/NryjsMu45aM/s320/dichaea+ciliolata.png" width="277" /></a></div><i>Dichaea ciliolata</i><br />
(Panama)<br />
2-25-69<br />
© Sarah Stifler JesupAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05988060606297986144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042295857632824482.post-9268254478241916862011-11-14T12:59:00.001-05:002011-11-14T12:59:15.881-05:00The Dollmaker by Harriette ArnowThis book bowled me over.<br><br>I loved the main character, Gertie, from page one. The first few chapters were blissful, but I knew that the rug would be pulled out from under.<br><br>When it was (she moved her children from a Kentucky farm to join her husband in a Detroit tenement), the contrast was stark and heartbreaking and infuriating. And all the more so because I know that Gertie's story is true (this book is fiction, but you know what I mean) and was repeated over and over in the twentieth century.<br> <br>As an embodiment of rural migration to the city, Gertie's story includes many of the horrors of modern life: living on credit, bearing the war between corporations and unions, children becoming "wiser" in the ways of the world than their parents, enduring the prejudices and religious intolerance of neighbors, and witnessing the degradation of quality (mass-produced goods). Plus the war and anti-communist paranoia and lack of equality for women... but it all stays human because we follow Gertie through each descending step, as her oldest child runs away, as two of her children become accustomed to the city and scornful of the farm, and as her peers and her husband drive her to a betrayal of her fourth child, Cassie Marie, that leads to the girl's unbelievably wrenching death.<br> <br>The dolls that Gertie whittles undergo a transition, too. To make them ever more cheaply and quickly, she bends to modern ideas and inevitably begins to hate the products. Her grand opus, the sculpture-in-progress on which she labors throughout, becomes the symbol of what has changed in her life, and in the end, the scapegoat -- the Judas -- of her choices and failures.<br> <br>Beautiful, smart, haunting, and sad.<br> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05988060606297986144noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042295857632824482.post-29535136874244170342011-10-02T10:37:00.001-04:002011-10-02T10:37:03.706-04:00Reading -- never thought of it this way"THE FACT THAT PEOPLE don't like to read may trouble many of us in the Reading Class, but it shouldn't. For in truth, we have misidentified the "problem" facing us: it is not the much-bemoaned reading gap, but rather a seldom-mentioned knowledge gap. Though it is immodest to say, we readers genuinely know more than those who do not read. Thus we are usually able to make better-informed decisions than non-readers can. If we lived in an aristocracy of readers, this maldistribution of knowledge might be acceptable. But we don't; rather, we live in a democracy (if we are lucky). In a democracy, the people – readers and non-readers alike – decide. Thus we would like all citizens to be knowledgeable so that they can make well-informed decisions about our common affairs."<br>—Marshall Poe<br> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05988060606297986144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042295857632824482.post-88687440064038753752011-10-02T10:19:00.001-04:002011-10-02T10:19:52.086-04:00more Ursula, to tie together the two previous posts"The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries. It doesn't have to be plugged in, activated, or performed by a machine; all it needs is light, a human eye, and a human mind. It is not one of a kind, and it is not ephemeral. It lasts. It is reliable. If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell it to you again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book." Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05988060606297986144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042295857632824482.post-53681586500769646392011-10-02T10:14:00.001-04:002011-10-02T10:14:04.308-04:00Ursula LeGuin on publishing<p>"Books are social vectors, but publishers have been slow to see it. They barely even noticed book clubs until Oprah goosed them. But then the stupidity of the contemporary, corporation-owned publishing company is fathomless: they think they can sell books as commodities.</p> <p>"Moneymaking entities controlled by obscenely rich executives and their anonymous accountants have acquired most previously independent publishing houses with the notion of making quick profit by selling works of art and information. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that such people get sleepy when they read. Within the corporate whales are many luckless Jonahs who were swallowed alive with their old publishing house—editors and such anachronisms—people who read wide awake. Some of them are so alert they can scent out promising new writers. Some of them have their eyes so wide open they can even proofread. But it doesn't do them much good. For years now, most editors have had to waste most of their time on an unlevel playing field, fighting Sales and Accounting."</p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05988060606297986144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042295857632824482.post-75219326035881554372011-10-02T10:10:00.001-04:002011-10-02T10:10:05.304-04:00Only you, not only mesome "old folks" said to younger folks (<a href="http://www.overcomingbias.com/2011/09/aged-wisdom.html">http://www.overcomingbias.com/2011/09/aged-wisdom.html</a>): <br><br>"You might look inside yourself and think you know yourself, but over many decades you can change in ways you won't see ahead of time. Don't assume you know who you will become. This applies all the more to folks around you. You may know who they are now, but not who they will become."<br> <br>I also have found this to be true, even in my relatively short lifespan.<br clear="all"><br> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05988060606297986144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042295857632824482.post-40387055702023341662011-09-01T18:11:00.002-04:002011-09-07T07:43:13.496-04:00Into WordsFrans B M de Waal:<br />
"The evolutionary reasons for altruistic behavior are not necessarily the animals' reasons."<br />
From iPhoneAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05988060606297986144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042295857632824482.post-17225819237046005082011-08-31T14:55:00.001-04:002011-08-31T14:55:55.619-04:00Golf CountryIt's funny the look Arizonans give you when you say you don't play golf. A mixture of two parts incredulous and one part "flee the leper"<p>From iPhoneAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05988060606297986144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042295857632824482.post-22555443440376471642011-08-28T11:39:00.001-04:002011-08-28T11:39:25.904-04:00Bad Hair FortnightWell, it turns out I can't be a western woman, of leisure or otherwise. My hair HATES this climate. Flat and blah. Humidity may cause the frizz, but I'll deal with that in exchange for some pouf. <p>From iPhoneAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05988060606297986144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042295857632824482.post-32125744894531490882011-08-28T09:01:00.000-04:002011-08-28T09:02:04.529-04:00Snap Time!<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QUVnWf-OtIY/Tlo8TP2gm1I/AAAAAAAABLw/H36wCK2m3bo/s1600/photo-724530.JPG"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QUVnWf-OtIY/Tlo8TP2gm1I/AAAAAAAABLw/H36wCK2m3bo/s320/photo-724530.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5645891384232680274" /></a></p>From online New York Times:Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05988060606297986144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042295857632824482.post-33458870336834182052011-08-27T15:04:00.001-04:002011-08-27T15:04:32.254-04:00Which is worse...<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DeZqDMKWOgY/Tlk_wb0pTvI/AAAAAAAABLo/724u65c7HG0/s1600/photo-772254.JPG"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DeZqDMKWOgY/Tlk_wb0pTvI/AAAAAAAABLo/724u65c7HG0/s320/photo-772254.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5645613709220466418" /></a></p>...spelling it right but pronouncing it wrong (shudder) or jumping all the way in and spelling it wrong?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05988060606297986144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042295857632824482.post-35142189422959572082011-08-25T18:32:00.001-04:002011-08-25T18:32:52.867-04:00Unfortunate Acronyms<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EVlHlXsh2A8/TlbNlpmX0HI/AAAAAAAABLg/lG3Q4f5MCMQ/s1600/photo-772868.JPG"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EVlHlXsh2A8/TlbNlpmX0HI/AAAAAAAABLg/lG3Q4f5MCMQ/s320/photo-772868.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5644925229661147250" /></a></p>North American Directory ServicesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05988060606297986144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042295857632824482.post-13307048494742275392011-08-24T19:31:00.000-04:002011-08-24T19:32:07.718-04:00Leaping Frog<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LpfTEEfnJFA/TlWJ-INua4I/AAAAAAAABLY/nyn1D6T1bUQ/s1600/photo-727718.JPG"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LpfTEEfnJFA/TlWJ-INua4I/AAAAAAAABLY/nyn1D6T1bUQ/s320/photo-727718.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5644569408428731266" /></a></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05988060606297986144noreply@blogger.com0