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the piano is just swaying in the breeze

prodigal summer

“This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.”

-Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer

Barbara Kingsolver is one of my favorite authors of all time.  In Prodigal Summer she brings the reader alive by opening their eyes to the intricate, beautiful and sensual world of nature which the characters, and all of us, are embedded within.  One of my most fun and purposeful reads yet...

"It is not the language of painters but the language of nature to which one needs to listen."

-Vincent van Gough

the reason Recycle comes last...

There’s a reason that ‘recycling’ comes last in the mantra: Reduce, Repair, Reuse, Recycle.

"Recycling is what we do when we're out of options to avoid, repair, or reuse the product first. That's why I am so impressed with Patagonia for starting its Common Threads Initiative with the real solution: Reduce. Don't buy what we don't need. Repair: Fix stuff that still has life in it. Reuse: Share. Then, only when you've exhausted those options, recycle."

– Annie Leonard, author of The Story of Stuff

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