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to the Post Office today and this issue of National Geographic.  

If you are even so inclined,  please support this publication by subscribing.   The quality of the photographs are exceptional and magnificant.  The subscription amount so small to support them.  

and beyond,  each month,  they tell the STORY of this planet Earth,  Who we are,  What we are.

If i could go back in time and bring forward anything from my childhood,  i would bring all those National Geographics that were in the attic,  that my grandfather had subscribed to from the beginning.  I could build my house of them. 

 

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This,  photographs of common plants revealed in ultraviolet light….Craig P. Burrows.   Is this maybe, ?,  how the Night Beings see?  Moths?,  Bats?  others that i don't even know?  Could this be their night vision?  How this might change everything i know if it were so.

and then…if the above were not enough,  there is a section entitled:  Embark   and this month,  Anne Lamott.  Entitled:  Despite Perils,  Decide to Hope.    I haven't read it yet.  Am saving it for Morning.

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18 responses to “my Belov~ed”

  1. yvette Avatar
    yvette

    love

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  2. joanne Avatar
    joanne

    In the beginnings of the Time here in Maine, I mentored in the local middle school. The principal chose students who might “fall thru the cracks” We were a group of older men and women.
    One gentle man mentored a boy. The man got the boy a subscription to National Geographic with his mother’s permission. He also taught the boy to row a boat. Showed him a Life he might not have imagined.
    I have always loved the pictures. Most times, no words are necessary.

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  3. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    love the thought of building a house with old National Geographics & those flowers are surreal! early this century I tracked down Vol.125 April 1964, the photo of a Siamese gleefully dancing on his hind legs with a fish in his claws was seared into my memory & I needed to see it again. Another compelling image is of a green eyed girl from Afghanistan by Steve McCurry from the 80’s, there are so many!

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  4. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    It is absolutely the best ..

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  5. Judy Martin Avatar
    Judy Martin

    I have let National Geographic go – I thought it was beautiful and important, but I did not have time for it in busy life. I gave most of the issues I had in shelves to the local school.
    but you have reminded me of the power and beauty of this publication.
    and the importance of keeping it alive.
    thank you xoxo

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  6. Patty Avatar
    Patty

    Just ordered a subscription. Must support this work. Plus,
    Annie Lamott, geez, all this for 19 bucks!

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    Back…..

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    this is such a Blessed Story…thank you for it

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    they are so Amazing, and part of so much Memory. I really wish i had them all

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes, isn’t it? just the BEST?

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i think giving them to a school is excellent. I’ve done
    that. OR, i’ve left them on the folding counter at the laundromat. They don’t need to be Kept unless building
    a house.
    But to SUPPORT them…to keep it all alive….

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes…isn’t it amazing?????????????, like really????????
    all for 19 dollars…..

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  13. Deb Lacativa Avatar
    Deb Lacativa

    To think that we sat in the grandparents attic and read the same National Geographics and/or Readers Digest Condensed. I’m not sure if my grandfather was actually literate but he couldn’t leave string-bound stacks of magazines on the curb when he passed them. My passions were the MAPS and the animals.
    My Mom got an annual subscription for my boys and now I’ve done the same for Charlie.
    oh, those stacks.

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i love the Smell of them.
    just as i was ready to leave New Mexico, my subscription was
    about up. sat and looked at the re-subscribe ticket…..
    Alyssia had, ahead of time, gotten me the Post Office box in
    the foreign land of California. That first time i found my
    way to it in Oroville, California…there was my latest issue.
    Stuff was ok.

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  15. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    Such wonderful pictures of the plants in this light. This magazine had been a staple in my life in the past and I saved some of my favorite ones from my dads stash when he passed on. I will look for this one at the store and will buy it on the road as it will be a welcomed read on rainy days.

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  16. Kristin Avatar
    Kristin

    Grace…I will have a large amount of red monarda seeds this year…also black eyed susans and echinacea…..will send if you would like. The hummers have really enjoyed the monarda this year….oh yes, I also have liatris, also called gay feather which really called the hummers this year. All of these are filled with bees and butterflies all summer long.
    Love seeing the seasons change on your new land and there is just so much to do and you have accomplished so much in these now nearly 10 months.
    Rain is finally here so I need to water much less and that is good. Still some bees remain because days are not too cold.
    Namaste my friend,
    Kristin

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i would be happy to send some along to you, if you
    have a P.O. Box

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    Monarda…yes, so much.
    am hoping by Spring, enough will be “in place”, whatever that
    really might mean, so that seeds can be set with assurance to
    Place. I’d wanted that these last months, but it was too soon.
    Monarda…calling to butterflies, yes.
    Love…

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