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Drying Fruit is Easy
Anything unfamiliar can be intimidating, but in the case of drying fruit, it’s almost a no-brainer.
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Our First Egg
“Well you should have eggs by now,” said the cashier. That’s what I was thinking. We’ve fed and watered them, cleaned up after them, and laughed at them too, for five months. But I was standing there at the register, like a virgin, having heard plenty of talk, read and looked at plenty of literature,…
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Our First Egg
“Well you should have eggs by now,” said the cashier. That’s what I was thinking. We’ve fed and watered them, cleaned up after them, and laughed at them too, for five months. But I was standing there at the register, like a virgin, having heard plenty of talk, read and looked at plenty of literature,…
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Freezing Vegetables for Virgins
Sometimes there are too many veggies to cook all at once. Greens come to mind. I never blanche my greens, though. May my foremothers slap my wrists if they want to, but they taste just fine with their enzymes to me. I
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How to Enjoy the Benefits of Your Labor
We all must learn to find enjoyment in our work, pay attention to the details, do the very best we can and contribute to a common cause. But we also have to enjoy the benefits!
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My Garden Friends
Most everything in the garden is in flux at all times, but garden friends are steadfast. Through rain and sleet and snow and sun, they get older too, but without growing up and going away.
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Along came a writing spider
Little Miss Martha held her bucket, while picking grapes for cider, when she saw a spider at work beside her that took her breath away…
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Why We Call People Chicken
Today a couple of them ventured just a little bit further, as you can see in the video, but then in true chicken hearted fashion ran as fast as they could back inside.
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I’m a Chicken Keeping Virgin
So now we’ve started talking about what kind of chickens we will get, and where we will get them. I am nervous and trembling, almost ready to cross the threshold, but a little squeamish. We want eggs and meat. We have three growing boys at home. But when I buy a chicken the head and…
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Spring Flowers
Food comes from flowers, reason enough to love them. It is no superficial relationship that we have with these beauties. But beauty helps doesn’t it?
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How to Be Self-Sufficient
Personally, I prefer a garden hose to panty hose, and my own vacation playground year round. I like to be part of a general effort to make or keep my environment beautiful and productive, not just take pictures or wish I was there.
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A Winter Walk in the Garden
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My Winter Garden
I like living in the upstate of South Carolina. We get four seasons, but winter is mild. It can be drab though. Our mostly hardwood trees just look grey and naked and forlorn in the winter time. We had a warmish weekend, and I stepped out to pull some weeds on Saturday. It’s been so…
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My Winter Garden
I like living in the upstate of South Carolina. We get four seasons, but winter is mild. It can be drab though. Our mostly hardwood trees just look grey and naked and forlorn in the winter time. We had a warmish weekend, and I stepped out to pull some weeds on Saturday. It’s been so…
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Some Memories of Butch Morris
I met Butch Morris at A Gathering of the Tribes in the East Village of New York City, in the early 1990′s. Steve Cannon had asked me to participate in a Chorus of Poets conducted by Butch Morris, and rehearsal was right there in Tribes Gallery (an intimate experience you could say.) I didn’t know…
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How to Keep a Shopping List
A shopping list is really a supply list. If you keep it, you can use it as a checklist as you scan your kitchen, pantry, feed and garden supplies to see what you need. You can organize it according to the stores you will buy the items at, and even the layout of the store.…
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How to Resist the Quick Fix
While my almost, (but not just quite yet today) fifty year old body tends to go into hibernation mode in December, my activity level actually increases over the holidays. I feel like sleeping more, but actually sleep less. There are more special kids events, presents to buy, guests in the house, travel plans. Not surprisingly, when…
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How to Resist the Quick Fix
While my almost, (but not just quite yet today) fifty year old body tends to go into hibernation mode in December, my activity level actually increases over the holidays. I feel like sleeping more, but actually sleep less. There are more special kids events, presents to buy, guests in the house, travel plans. Not surprisingly, when…
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Smothered Eggplant a New Southern Classic
Most southerners I meet have never cooked an eggplant, even if they have heard of one (not common.) But if they made it like this, with their favorite biscuit gravy recipe, then eggplant would become a new southern classic I am sure! Another thing I have now done with eggplant is to make a stuffing,…
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Fierce Father Goose
We suspected that these two geese had a hidden nest. Now we know. It is a sight to behold, the family moving around together. They keep the goslings constantly herded between them and the father goes on the attack toward anyone approaching, other geese included. He hunches down his head and curls up his neck,…
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Fierce Father Goose
We suspected that these two geese had a hidden nest. Now we know. It is a sight to behold, the family moving around together. They keep the goslings constantly herded between them and the father goes on the attack toward anyone approaching, other geese included. He hunches down his head and curls up his neck,…
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Ms. Roberta Flack 2012
I’m a Roberta Flack fan. The first time ever I heard her voice, I was touched by her depth of feeling and purity of sound. She reached out to a part of me that is innocent, full of awe, and imbued with love. That is a great place to dwell when you can find yourself…
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Sweet Sweet Stevia
Three years ago I planted some stevia seeds in starter cups, and later transferred them to a raised bed with artichokes and asparagus; all three are perennials. I love perennials. Probably because I’m lazy. I don’t have to do anything but cover the roots with compost in the winter time, and year after year they…
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Sweet Sweet Stevia
Three years ago I planted some stevia seeds in starter cups, and later transferred them to a raised bed with artichokes and asparagus; all three are perennials. I love perennials. Probably because I’m lazy. I don’t have to do anything but cover the roots with compost in the winter time, and year after year they…
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Listen & Be Heard Weekly Print Covers – Contact Sheet 7
Listen & Be Heard Weekly Print Covers – Contact Sheet 7
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Listen & Be Heard Weekly Print Covers – Contact Sheet 5
Listen & Be Heard Weekly Print Covers – Contact Sheet 5
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L&BH Weekly Print Covers – Contact Sheet 1
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Poetry in Leopard Forest
Every second Friday of the month, the Leopard Forest Cafe in Travelers Rest, SC, hosts a poetry open mic that follows a reading by a guest poet. I went a couple months ago, the first open mic I attended since moving to Greenville, and was invited to return as the guest poet on Friday, Nov.…
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Thanks for Listening
Dear All, This will be my last letter from the editor of Listen & Be Heard. Times are changing, and I am changing with them. Listen & Be Heard the open mic, Listen & Be Heard the newspaper and website, and Listen & Be Heard Poetry Cafe have all been learning experiences for me from…
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Winds of Change
I want to arrive on the wings of a dove hear the rustle of my feath- ers in the winds of change.
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Honesty
A reflection is fated, pre-destined to acquire each line in the brow each decision how made without stopping to inquire.
