Optimism: 10 Bucks and Change

OPTIMISM – Ten Bucks and Change It’s hard to come by these days, isn’t it? Action, you already know, is the most effective antidote for existential gloom. Psychologists are right when they say helping others is the best medicine. I’m now belatedly but determinedly engaged in creating more ecological islands in my ragged lawn: naturalized […]

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Descending Scale

Winter solstice. Our shortest days, long long LONG nights. Less sunlight is thought to produce less serotonin and more melatonin, leading to Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) for a few folks. Many of us will mourn the comfort and beauty of summer, lament the severely shrunken luxuriance of local life. Some may be the opposite: encouraged […]