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Our Grape Arbor

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Design, Gardening
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...eplaced it with an arbor. Our neighbor generously gave us the columns that used to be on her front porch and I added a plinth to make them taller. In the background are two apple trees that provide some privacy. It’s taken a couple of years for the grapes to cover the structure. One reason is that we lost two vines to Pierce’s disease. Now we have two resistant varieties: Vitus Californica “Rogers Red” and Vitis vinifera x V. lambrusca “Pearl Rive...

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Can our landscapes model a vibrant future? Not according to the LA DWP.

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Garden Design, Gardening, Lawns, Water and Power
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...lawn plus a few shrubs up around the house foundation takes no thought, causes no problems with the neighbors and is easily maintained by inexpensive gardening services. What’s not to love, really? And why not hold on to our lawns, because the drought will pass and we’ll be back to normal. Asking people to re-imagine their yards is asking a lot. Yet it may be vital. This drought may not end. Los Angeles and all of the southwest are looking at a h...

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Composting the Deceased/ My DIY Funeral Fantasies

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Composting
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...is life, and it is what I’d most like my body to become when I die. But I used to imagine that the only way to successfully compost a human body would be to first break it down into a manageable pile of nitrogen by sending it through a chipper/shredder (the head! I know!)– which would be very distressing to the bereaved –though no skin off my deceased nose. So to speak. In my imaginings of an enlightened future in which we’d all be composted, the...

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Live Like a Stoic for a Week

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Thoughtstylings
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...g questionnaires before and after the week and the data from these will be used to assess the effectiveness of the Stoic ideas when they are put into practice today. Dr John Sellars of Birkbeck’s Philosophy Department and a member of the Stoicism Today project, said: “The ancient Stoic authors offer a wide range of practical advice that many people have drawn on in their daily lives. Stoic Week is an opportunity for people to put Stoicism to the t...

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