Verdant View By Francisco Nava The Monarch and Milkweed My partner has created a monarch nursery in his garden to collect, nurture and help birth Monarch butterflies. The magic of watching a small, tri-colored caterpillar grow amazingly fast and metamorphosize into a chrysalis is astounding. More so, when the chrysalis opens and the transformed caterpillar […]
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Unsung Heroes By Carol L. Bowman bowmanl@prodigy.net.mx Gerardo Martinez MiLian We all know that the proper functioning of public services like water, electricity and internet can make the difference between a good day and a miserable one. Here in Mexico, as is anywhere in the world, there are times when a break-down occurs, and
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Astrolynx By Juan Sacelli December, which always includes the Winter Solstice, is absolutely supercharged this year. Absent cloudy skies, the penguins in Antarctica will be able to witness a total solar eclipse in Sagittarius on Dec 4 (humans in the far southern hemisphere may watch a partial one). The penguins may be forgiven for
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REMEMBRANCE OF TWO HORSES AND ANOTHER TIME AND PLACE By Dr. Lorin Swinehart “All the horses of heaven are in the pasture tonight.”“All the horses of heaven are in the pasture tonight.”James Tipton“After Years of Listening” At first, there were three. I was very small when I first came to know two of
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Getting to Know Our Souls By Barbara Hildt Testimonies from people who had NDEs, near death experiences, have convinced me that we are all immortal, resilient souls. Fortunately, we don’t need to die or have a NDE to know our souls and acquire their wisdom. We only need to quiet our minds and open
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Life In The Texas Hill Country By Linda L. Steele After moving to the Texas Hill Country twelve years ago, I soon realized that I had a lot to learn about living here! As an avid lifetime cyclist, each native of the area I encountered was quick to share one warning or another about
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On Christmas Morn He Came A Yuletide Fable by Charles A. Baumhauer Dorothy was uneasy. This was no way to spend Christmas Eve. She had told her mother she didn’t want to visit Miss Pandora, but her mother had insisted. She thought briefly of pretending to be sick, but she knew her mother wouldn’t
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Christmas Cancelled!!! By Judy Dykstra-Brown Lower the pinãta. Bring the party to a halt. Cease your roar of protest, for I’m not the one at fault for curbing your frivolity and quashing all your fun. If you need a scapegoat, Father Christmas is the one who turned Rudolph out to pasture and retired his
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Christmas below the Tropic of Cancer By Judy Dykstra-Brown Though other friends and family are too far away, we can celebrate with new-found friends on Christmas day. We will light our candles and cook the spiral ham, eat the sugar cookies filled with nuts and jam. We’ll enjoy the babble around the Christmas table
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Celebrating Winter Solstice By Patricia Guy For me, celebrating winter solstice is a primal, human need. I like to acknowledge my changing physical relationship to the sun through observing the solstices and the equinoxes. In the deep mid-winter, the sun and I are the farthest distance from each other, and my appreciation for its
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