Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Sir Poopalot and Other Animal Tales
This morning as I headed off to work, I saw the cutest sight – a family of squirrels cavorting in a roadside plumbago bush. Until they saw me approach, they seemed quite carefree, the babies playing and nuzzling each other and just being cute. This has been a year of an unusually large number of…
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It’s all Greek to me!
A colleague asked me recently, “Does your garden look like that?” This was like being asked, “Does your body look like Gisele Bundchen’s?” “Uh… no!” Not by a long shot. Where I work, landscaping companies come over every few months and give our surroundings a complete facelift. Little hills of compost are raked over planting…
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What the fig?!
This past weekend, we had a friend visiting from overseas, a regular high-tech guy with heretofore no noticeable quirks. And then he revealed his desire to buy a farm! He was serious; he even went and got a certificate in Farming 101 or something similar since laws in his country limit ownership of agricultural land to farmers…
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Chilling
I am into modeling. I would show you pictures of my work, but there are likely legal ramifications that I do not care to risk. Oh, not this kind of modeling but the considerably more interesting and equally glamorous, this kind of modeling. As the last leaves of our apple tree (which is a very late variety…
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Ripe – An Inspiration
The book recommendation algorithm at our library is surprisingly good; recognizing my interest in edible gardening, in particular fruit, it suggested “Ripe: A Cook in the Orchard” by Nigel Slater. If I were to ever write a book that combines my three loves of gardening, cooking + baking and photography, this is the kind of book I hope it would be. The prose…
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