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Judaism the American Way?
A recent blog has stirred up some disapproving comments on our Facebook page. This couple split their holiday card in half with the husband on the Christmas side and the wife on the Hanukkah side. The wife says, "We do it ALL." They "bake" latkes. This is interesting considering the "traditional" way to make latkes is to fry them in oil to remember the miracle of the oil narrative. However, so many families today eat latkes with all kind of variations (baking is certainly healthier). She also says that she hopes her children will gravitate toward Judaism but that she is not "pushing" it.
It would be easy to read this and say, "Goodbye liberal American Judaism—it's been nice knowing you." This kind of flippant observation of Judaism and commercializing the minor holiday of Hanukkah to become like Christmas marks doomsday for an authentic Judaism to survive. However, I read this and think, "Wow…many people are living and creating a new Jewish expression." This is "minhag America" (American tradition). I am referring to Isaac Mayer Wise's first American Jewish prayer book when I use that expression.
It is possible that they teach their children to be mensches (and perhaps use the word), that they give tzedakah and care about social justice because of and based in their Jewish identity. It is possible that they turn to Jewish expression at important life cycle events like weddings, birth and death (and want their children turning 13 to mark that occasion Jewishly as well).
Is this good enough? Is this Jewish enough? Will this lead to future generations of Jews? Do we want these families in our synagogues or not? What would get a family like this to join a synagogue? What is the litmus test for when a family crosses a boundary that makes them not "really" Jewish?
I say, let's build communities where we are not judgmental of whether the children are doing it ALL. A community that says that everyone in the family can participate in a totally open, accessible Judaism. A community where we celebrate the holidays with great food, timeless narratives of eternal truths, and live kindness and giving with audacity. A community that says that the Jewish way of wrestling with God and arguing for the sake of heaven nourishes our souls and is good for our spirits.
Synagogue Can Be Your Second Home
My children are too at home at our synagogue. Their dad is the rabbi there and they feel that his office is their play place. They know every inch of the building, including where to find snacks that aren't theirs to take. They know the staff. They feel comfortable expressing themselves during services. I have been thinking about how many other places we frequent and what this says about our lifestyle.
We know the supermarket well. Other parents think I'm crazy for schlepping (Yiddish for dragging) my 4- and 6-year-olds to go grocery shopping, but we basically enjoy the weekly trip. One or both of them ride in the cart and we eat as we shop. We follow the same path each week and we take the same items. Sometimes a new product appears and we examine it which can be fun and guess at whether we will like it (especially if it is in the gluten free section as our 6-year-old has celiac disease). We have our favorite check-out cashier and my kids love to say "hi" to Miss Sandra and pretend that they are shy.
The preschool and elementary school are also like extensions of our home. My kids are proud to show me around when I'm there. They point out artwork on the wall, we schmooze (Yiddish for small talk) with the school staff, and they reminisce about what happened in the gym that day or on the playground.
Then there are other people's homes. We are lucky to have cousins who live nearby: Aunt Stacie and Uncle Bill's house is a comforting, familiar place to visit. The kids know how it works there as well. They take off their shoes in the right spot, they know what they can and can't touch, etc. They look forward to the different toys and activities that they encounter there. And of course, the people in the home seal the deal for loving this stop.
Two last places we frequent a lot (I'm embarrassed to admit on a weekly basis) are both Target and Party City. They know the aisles there perfectly. They know which stops they want to make first and they always have a treasure in mind that they have been dreaming about.
I wonder about how many "normal" (non Rabbi-Rabbi families) think of a synagogue as a home away from home? Do you walk in and know where to go? Do you know the staff and do they know you? Do you know where to hang your coat, where the bathrooms are and when the building is even open? Would you ever think of stopping in at a time other than for services or Sunday School or Hebrew School?
You could come to read a book in-between meetings or appointments. You could come sit on a couch and do homework in a quiet and cozy spot with a child between afterschool activities. Dare I say, you could stop in to say hi to the educator and clergy! You could check out the flyers you may have missed, see what upcoming events are happening and read the Jewish magazines that are typically on display.
Synagogues are usually open during regular business hours. Stop in! Stay awhile. Say "Shalom." Bring your kids. Feeling comfortable and familiar in a spot breeds connectedness and warmth.
A Mantra For Holiday Stress (and other challenging circumstances)
I know we are supposed to be in a time of joy and merriment but if you're feeling like I am, everything is overwhelming right now. Preparing for the holidays can be busy! Are you shopping, cooking, traveling, negotiating, planning, decorating, compromising, missing and wishing?
Are you feeling well or exhausted?
Are you busy squeezing everything in and rushing?
Are you worried about money this time of year?
Are you worried about pleasing everyone?
Did you just have school conferences and new worries have cropped up?
Hopefully the joy of family and friends being together and the excitement and magic that seems to be in the air is filling your heart. Maybe volunteering and giving back is a fulfilling experience that you look forward to each Thanksgiving or on Christmas or as part of Hanukkah?
If you are feeling stressed, Judaism can offer some solace. I use a mantra that I return to over and over when my heart is beating fast, the emails and voicemails are unanswered, when there is too much to do and not enough time and when everyone needs me at once.
The mantra is from the Torah. The line is: Ozi v'zimrat Ya, vayihi li, yishuah. (My strength and the song of God will be my salvation.) This is a line from Exodus 15:2 and Psalm 118:14. To me it means that our inner strength coupled with the poetic, the Mysterious, and the beauty around us will lift us above the mundane and ground us with stability.
Hear a sung version of this line here.
Repeating the same line over and over can calm us, bring a smile to our face, and remind us what is important.
I wish you all a happy and healthy holiday season. May your strength and the song of God be a saving grace to you.
My Life is Changing
I often feel that life is a series of days unless we pause occasionally to celebrate. There are definitely highs and lows of each day and some events stay with us for days or weeks, but generally days and weeks come and go. This is why entering a period of pause each week, called Shabbat is so crucial. This is why holidays and life cycle events are so important. They mark our time with meaning.
This past weekend, two events occurred in our house which felt they changed our lives. Although the two events were not monumental to most, they felt dramatic to me.
The first event was that my six-year-old had her first spelling test. First grade is very different from "half-day" kindergarten. In first grade, she gets on the bus at 8:30 and comes off the bus at 3:30 and has had all kinds of experiences that she navigates herself. Most of her day is at school—not at home now. However, this first spelling test brought me nearly to tears of joy. She had reached a new place in her young life. Now, she was being tested and judged based on what she studied and how she performed. Now, we as parents, had a new responsibility on our shoulders: to help her study.
The second event that occurred was that our daughter went on her first sleep-over at a friend's house around the corner from where we live. We were proud and filled with nachas (a Yiddish word meaning pride from a loved one's accomplishment). She had to make her needs known. She had to perform her own self-care.
I got into bed the night she was not home and felt God's presence as I have not felt in a long time. Perhaps because I have been moved by the stories my colleagues—fellow rabbi-rabbi parents have shared about their own son's brave fight of childhood cancer and about the thousands like him—I cherish even more keenly and with a different perspective our children's lives.
When I say I felt God's presence, what I felt was the support of thousands of other parents over generations who have had the joy of seeing their children accomplish new feats. I felt excitement at what was to come. I felt in awe of how life moves along and how obstacles are overcome.
I love the shehecheyanu prayer (the Jewish Kodak moment blessing). It is said at new and joyous occasions and it thanks God for sustaining us and enabling us to reach this new place. The word "chai" (life) is in the middle of this hard-to-pronounce word, shehecheyanu. Judaism is obsessed with life. With living the best life we can. Harold Kushner wrote a whole book called, To Life. Think Fiddler on the Roof, "To life, to life, l'chayim."
Of course I said shehecheyanu. I say it at every wedding. I said it when a first tooth was lost. (I think I was too sleep deprived to say it when that tooth grew in at three or four months old!) I said it when it snowed for the first time this season a few days ago in Chicago. But, I wanted a different, more specific prayer for this occasion of watching my daughter grow up.
Those who were raised with Judaism can be skittish about spontaneous, personal prayer. We like scripted prayers that start, "Baruch Atah Adonai…" I wrote my rabbinic thesis on spontaneous Jewish prayer because I am terrified of it. But, I prayed to God from my heart in my bed that night.
Over Thanksgiving dinner or the first nights of Hanukkah, maybe give yourself the freedom to add your own words, your own sentiments to our scripted prayers. Or fill the words from the sheets you read or which flow from your mouth out of memory with kavannah, special intention.
Judaism is all about turning the mundane into the sacred. A spelling test? A sleep-over? Yes—these were sacred moments to mark.
Who is IN and Who is OUT?
I recently attended a think tank talking about how to expand "our" reach to interfaith families, Jews of all hues and LGBTQ individuals, couples and families. This is the visual I made during the sessions.
Who is the "our?" Who do "we" want to reach and why? Do people want to be reached in this way and come in? In to what? In to whom?
Is the premise that the "in group" that wants these unaffiliated, differently engaged people to walk through "their" doors not the same as those outside? Thus, the in group has to learn about them and understand them so that they can welcome them better?
Relationships are based on learning about the other person, so in this way, asking questions and gaining insights into what some people in these categories consider offensive or inviting is helpful. Learning about situations that have caused pain and struggle can give sensitivity and background for when they will meet and speak.
Once people are invited in, is it to share the same experience as those already on the inside, or to help mold and shape a new experience based on the new voices and backgrounds present? Is there a core that has to stay consistent and unchanged no matter who comes in?
These were some of the questions we were grappling with. What do you think?
Schusterman Foundation Announces New #MakeItHappen Microgrant Initiative
An exciting opportunity came across my inbox the other day that I wanted to tell you about—in the hopes that you'll take advantage of it for your own community.
Our friends at the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation announced that they just launched their newest microgrant campaign–the #MakeItHappen initiative—inviting individuals to submit inspiring ideas to create unique and engaging Jewish experiences in their communities, for themselves and their peers. Here are the details:
The idea is to enable specific experiences and events to happen that would not have otherwise occurred. A central part of the experience should include a Jewish element, whether it's cultural, educational, spiritual or social.
We know that you are already thinking of a great idea! So #MakeItHappen and submit now at makeithappen.schusterman.org!
Chicagoland: Let's Talk
We here at IFF talk a lot about insider/outsider language and how those in Jewish life can be sensitive to language that not all who find themselves in the Jewish community may know. So, I thought I would take this chance to make sure you all know how the IFF website works.
InterfaithFamily is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to support interfaith couples and families exploring Judaism. IFF is based in the greater Boston area and has additional "Your Community" local offices in Chicago, Philadelphia and San Francisco. (If you think your city would like a full-time person whose job is devoted solely to engaging interfaith couples and families in Jewish life, contact us for more information). The IFF website is vast! There are articles on every subject related to experiencing Judaism, specifically written with modern interfaith life in mind. There are narratives, videos, ways to learn blessings, recipes, blogs, pop-culture and more.
Each IFF/Your Community has a page devoted to the work being done in that community. I want those in Chicagoland to know about events going on around town that might be of interest and have ways to connect to welcoming congregations and professionals. One category that we have on our Chicagoland page is "People." Who are these people? Might you be one of them? They are people who have listed themselves as members of InterfaithFamily. When you become a member (for free) you can pick the subjects that are interesting to you and when a new piece of content is written, it will be suggested on your profile. You can list your zip code so that when events in your neck of the woods come up, you will know. We designed this membership system so that when people "join" IFF as members, you can then connect to each other!
Do you ever wonder if other parents of toddlers give presents each night of Hanukkah? Do you wish your 10-year-old could experience a bar or
You can ask each other about these things on our discussion boards! You can learn from others in similar situations. Community means: a feeling of fellowship with others as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests and goals. We speak about "virtual communities" a lot. You can be a real virtual community for each other.
If you are not already a member of IFF and want to create a profile, go to: www.interfaithfamily.com/join.
If you are already a member in Chicago and want to see your profile, just log in and click on "my personal page" at the top right of the screen.
You can see other members in Chicago by going here and clicking on "People."
If you have a question or comment and want others to reply, click on "discussions" and "add a topic."
I have been slowly but surely looking at member profiles and trying to reach out to see if you have specific areas you want to discuss with me. If you would like to connect, email me at email@example.com.
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The Conversation Starts Here
Jewish educators (including me) are constantly writing about interfaith families—how to engage them, what their challenges are, what this means for the current state and future of Judaism. I thought an interesting way into the conversation would be to record quotes I have heard this week. These quotes are taken from different people and were said in different venues—from adult education, to talking with parents and grandparents on the phone or in person, to capturing what my own child said during bedtime. These comments capture the range of the concerns people have. Some of them go to the heart of the work we do, and others bring up policy and programmatic challenges.
What would your answers be to these questions or what would your follow-up questions be to these statements?
Things people have said to me this week:
"One of the big issues grandparents face when grandchildren aren't being raised Jewish is our own guilt."
"I don't want to have to pass a litmus test to get a Jewish education for my children."
"If God is in my heart, when does God come out? Does God sleep?" (From my four year old)
"We are so busy during the week that we don't want to be away more from our child on Sunday mornings for drop-off religious school."
"I want to drop off my child on Sundays and go get a coffee and read The New York Times."
"The only way our priest would marry us was if we also had a rabbi and if we promised to pass on Judaism."
"I am very concerned about burial issues that will come up for all of these interfaith couples who aren't thinking about that yet."
Twitter challenge for October: Tweet comments you hear other people say about life as an interfaith couple or family, things said at your Jewish programs or by your kids. Your words are the best conversation starters for us at InterfaithFamily! Follow us at @InterfaithFam and tag us in your comments with the hashtag #InterfaithQuotes.
An Interfaith Family's Bar Mitzvah
I recently had the honor of working with an interfaith family as their son, Jonah, prepared for his
The ceremony began with his grandfather putting a tallit (a prayer shawl) on Jonah's shoulders. His grandfather explained to him that this tallit had been bought in Israel by his great grandfather. This tallit had been worn by Jonah's grandfather and father. Now Jonah, as a Bar Mitzvah, wore the tallit with pride. His grandfather said that his hope is that Jonah would give the tallit to his son one day. Continuity.
Here is what Jonah had to say:
This is my Bar Mitzvah because it is the first time that I will have the opportunity to read aloud from the Torah. To do this, I had to learn to read Hebrew and even harder, learn to read without vowels and with the fancy Torah script. This took much time to study and practice. To me learning about my Jewish heritage is very important because it shows the other side of my religion that has not been so clear to me. Since I'm neither fully Jewish nor a full catholic, I declare myself a "cashew." No, I'm not the nut cashew but the cashew that means I have grasped both of my religions and wish to continue both of them in the future. This is very important to me.
My Torah portion is from the book of Deuteronomy. It is part of the Torah that is also read on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the calendar, because this narrative is so powerful. It is about God saying to the people to never give up. Even if it is so far out of your reach you must never give up because one day you will reach it. Also, I will be reading a part of the book of Jonah, not me, the prophet. It is traditional on Shabbat morning to read from the Torah and from the Prophets. I picked Jonah for obvious reasons. He has a cool name! What I learned from the story of Jonah is to trust God no matter what the circumstances. For example, Jonah was sent to Nineveh by God, but chose to go somewhere else because Nineveh is so outrageously uncivilized. Jonah was then swallowed by a whale and then spit out after three days of prayer and regretting his decision to disobey God. He was spat out onto the land of Nineveh where he brought forth God's warning to change or bare the wrath of annihilation. Jonah waited patiently for the annihilation of the people but it never came. The moral is that you should never lose trust in God and that God has forgiveness and caring."
There is a debate in the Jewish world about whether families who want both religions in their lives can find a place within the organized community for learning and fellowship. I hope that by sharing this experience of a family who has sought out Jewish learning and living in real and meaningful ways, can help us think about how we might be able to open our gates a little more.
I wish you all a happy and healthy new year. May this be a year of getting to know the individuals who call us for information, or stop in for programming. It is through hearing each other's stories and intentions, struggles, questions and yearnings that assumptions can be dropped and judgment held so that sharing can ensue.
Moms and Membership
I recently had the honor of meeting five women who are due with their first babies in the fall (one brought her four week old). While none of them grew up Jewish, they are married to Jews and they want to create a home with Judaism (traditions, holidays, values) for their growing families. They all felt that their spouses did not have the literacy or resolve to accomplish this goal alone. They are seeking fellowship among other women in the same boat, and they are eager for their own Jewish learning and for ways into Jewish communal life.
Sitting with these women reminded me of a core truth of the work we do: Intermarriage is not the end of Judaism. Intermarriage does not mean the Jew is abandoning Judaism. Partners who aren't Jewish are often open and ready to take on aspects of Jewish living, even though the learning curve is often so darn steep.
One of the moms-to-be said that they are ready to join a synagogue but that she "heard" the membership dues were $3,000. Someone else chimed in that there must be a lower rate for a new family or first time members. The first mom seemed hesitant to call the synagogue to find out.
On the High Holidays, synagogues will be filled with non-members. This is not a great term. InterfaithFamily suggests trying to avoid "non" in any kind of description about someone. We advocate saying "not Jewish" verses "non-Jew." The people who are not dues paying members may be friends and family of members or they may have no connection to the congregation other than they bought a ticket. How can we tell all of these people that they already "belong?"
One idea is to have members say aloud the following words and to write them on literature that is handed out and on the homepage of every synagogue website: If you are interested in learning more about this open and warm community, please call (give the name and title of the membership person with his or her direct line and email). It is helpful to have a real person to call rather than have to search a website for membership information which is anonymous. We want our words to reflect a sentiment of welcome. If I were writing something, I would say:
I know there are lots of people studying new dues structures. This is not about a dues structure–fee for service, voluntary donations, etc. This is about the feeling of what it means to be a "member."
Each of these five women and the new faces in synagogues over the next few weeks will make great synagogue members.


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I'm working on a relatively rudimentary project which requires using a text-to-speech engine to read the current time. PHP will allow me to output the current time in many ways. However, I need to output the time as words. For example, 13:00 should output as "one o'clock pm" and so forth. Another example, 01:23 should output as "one twenty three am".
I've searched for some scripts, and attempted to use my terribly amateurish PHP skills to accomplish this, but so far I am unable to complete the task.
Does anyone know of an existing script, written in PHP, that can do this? All we're looking to do is read the system time, apply an offset for time zone, then take the resulting time and output as words. I can give any clarification needed.
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BackgroundTony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 features 12 skaters, new combinations, interactive global environments, and instant replay. Create a skater or a park and engage in tournament play with 7 other friends. New is the ability to continue a combination indefinitely.
- Play as one of the many different Pro Skaters in the game, such as - Tony Hawk, Chad Muska, Kareem Campbell, Andrew Reynolds and Jamie Thomas
- Create your own skater from scratch with Create-a-Skater mode
- Design your ideal course with the 3-D Skate Park Editor
- Choose from hundreds of new tricks
- More realistic collisions
- There are several skate parks to choose from, including Marseilles, Manhattan and Skate Street Ventura
- Free Skate Mode and Multiplayer modes - [such as tag, trick-attack, HORSE and graffiti]
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Added on: May 28, 2001
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- Genre: X-treme Sports (Mac)
- Perspective(s): Third Person
- Developer: Westlake Interactive
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Is 'Cherry Berry' a diva?
I picked this one because it was cute, without doing any research (that's my usual mode). It looked OK this spring, but is a sorry sight indeed now. Is more sun the likely solution? (It gets very little where it is)
'Cherry Berry' in June 2012
'Cherry Berry' in August 2012
Please stop laughing.
In this case, having a LOOKALIKE is a blessing.
How about trying Moonstruck? It is a nice plant, I think the same size, and not as temperamental.
At least, it looks similar to me.
And for a size comparison, Moonstruck with The Razor's Edge
I must have read those same reviews, because I steer clear of it as well. Moonstruck is good for me, although no red pets on it. But I have lots of other hosta with various colors of pets. Invincible Spirit is a good one, has a lot going on, plus it comes from the plantaginea family which makes up for the lack of white, to me anyway.
its all about the fact.. that 60% of the leaf is white.. frankly.. its a GE type plant at best ... very dependent on PERFECT amount of sun.. to offset the lack of chlorophyll .. and a lot more water than your 2nd pic shows ..
as per above.. it will simply disappear one winter ...
i have killed at least 3 of them ... no i refuse.. they committed suicide .. lol ..
ps: isnt invincible ... one of the worst slug baits in town.. so inappropriately named.. and its good to see another plant with that epitaph .. already with bug damage.. lol ... [is I one of paulines plants???]
Thanks for all the great replies - I don't feel the least bit guilty now. So I'll give it one last chance in a new location, and have a trip to the hosta nursery to choose a more willing resident for this spot. (Ken's right about the water problem - this one is off the radar for my sprinklers, and also, I suspect, for my son who tends the gardens while I'm cottaging.
Perhaps your 'Cherry Berry' has crown rot. Can you pull off leaves and some part of the crown is mushy? Your hosta seems to sit in a wet corner. I just gave what's left over from a H.'Clovelly' a bleach bath and cut off mushy parts, then replanted it high in a pot. This worked on 5 other plants with crown rot.
From now on I am hesitant to grow crowns below grade. The heat must further crown rot. Bernd
I have 2 (new this spring) and so far they seem to be doing okay. The one got beat up from the branches and wind but the other made it through untouched. Both of these are in west sun and not that great of soil so maybe you are treating them too nice. Time will tell I guess
My CB was bought last year and I had placed it in a larger pot and burried it in a sleeve in the ground for the winter. But late summer last year it really had faded. This spring it came up very nicely. Everything I did this year was late for health reasons, but I unpotted CB and planted it. Now it is showing late season stress again, but this year so am I.
I might suggest that if you like a healthy Cherry Berry, and I do, then maybe the combination of a pot and sleeve in the ground is the way to go. The one I used is a commercially availabe one, though I don't remember the name. But I have duplicated it using consecutively larger nursery pots. For example, if you pot your CB in a 10" nursery pot make a sleeve by cutting out much of the bottom of a 12" pot. You bury the 12" sleeve you've made in the ground and place the 10" pot in it.
I have several sleeves in various spots in my gardens and leave them there. They come in handy whenever I want to check on light conditions of a new hosta before committing them to planting. I am also addicted to hostas and buy them without regard to where they will be planted (duh). There is little set-back when moving pot and sleeve grown hostas. I would love to have a large garden area with variable light with imbedded sleeves of varied sizes. But then I would buy so many I would violate the integrity of it by wanting to plant my beauties in the ground. I am sooooo hostaholic! lol
I hope I have just made sense. If not please ask me what the "H" I was talking about.
But I tend to agree with ken and bern, this is a diva not unlike Great Expectations. I might try GE once more but only if my sleeve idea seems to justify it. I think these difficult hosta just do not compete well and need extremely controlled care: unless you are lucky and hit the lepricans pot of gold.
What a name for a hosta: H.'Pot of Gold' or 'Leprican's Pot Of Gold'. Is there one?
I like 'Cherry Berry' but there are hundreds of other hostas that I like as well, and I don't have space for them all. My lifestyle - out of town for most of 3 months in summer - doesn't lend itself to hostas that require special care and coddling, no matter how satisfying to succeed with the difficult ones. I will probably just move on, and try something else, and have more appreciation when I see a well grown C.B. in someone else's garden.
Ken, sure do know how to hurt a gal! :)
No, Invincible is Paul Adens.
And Invincible Spirit, the one shown in my post above, is Hugo Philips and Ben Zonneveld...
Pauline is clean on this one.
So you think it is slugs....I was thinking cut worms, but did not find any. Whatever it was liked to start at the edge and keep going. My new slug bait in the 10 pound container arrived, so it will be curtains for slugs now.
I've noticed that the pellets will after it rains and dries a couple of times, they turn to a black fuzzy powder, that will pouff into the air when I then water with a hose. Just so it is not harmful to breathe it, my slug bait is iron phosphate active ingerdient.
Good to have you making jibes as you do, Ken, my most favorite boss was such a one.
Not here. Since earlier posters mentioned in may be a matter of 'just the right light', I guess I got lucky:
Speaking of light, this one is planted in what I call 'the border', meaning right at the edge of the pine forest, so it's seeing a lot of northern sky without any direct light, except the occasional 'dappled' light sneaking through the pine forest as the sun travels the sky.
The slug damage you may notice is all 'my bad' since I didn't think about the fact that this season was running 2-3 weeks early and didn't re-time my slug/cut-worm poison applications.


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Eight children were among 11 people killed when a kindergarten minivan plunged into a reservoir in central China, state media reported Friday.
In an accidental explosion at a military installation in China`s Hunan province, seventeen Chinese soldiers were killed while piling ammunition, state media reported Wednesday.
Six Chinese officials have been sacked over sex scandals in central Hunan Province.
Five workers and an elderly person were killed when a blast ripped through an illegal fireworks unit in central China`s Hunan Province, media report said.
A Chinese court today sentenced four government workers to between three and a half and 11 years` jail over a dispute that left a roadside vendor dead, state media reported, unleashing fresh accusations of official privilege.
At least 180 students fell ill after having milk and cookies at an elementary school in central China`s Hunan Province.
At least 15 people were killed and 4.68 million affected as heavy rains lashed several parts of China.
China`s deadly outbreak of H7N9 bird flu has spread to the central province of Hunan, local health authorities said Saturday, the third announcement in three days of a case in a new location.
A Saudi Arabian man has been detained for molesting a woman in a canteen in central China`s Hunan province, Xinhua reported Sunday.
Thirteen people were killed and 64 others injured in multiple vehicle pile-up on an icy expressway in central China`s Hunan province on Friday.
A Chinese woman, who was ordered to serve 18 months` labour over campaign for tougher punishment for those who raped and forced her underage daughter into prostitution, said she plans to sue govt.
Over 3,600 houses have collapsed in the storms, which have also led to direct economic losses of about CNY 2.87 billion.
Archaeologists have discovered an oriental 'Pompeii' in Hunan, China.
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Some chemical conversions are harder than others. Refining natural gas into an easy-to-transport, easy-to-store liquid alcohol has so far been a logistic and economic challenge. But now, a new material, designed and patented by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), is making this process a little easier. The research, published earlier this year in Nature Chemistry, could pave the way for the adoption of cheaper, cleaner-burning fuels
"Hydrocarbons like ethane and methane could be used as fuel, but they're hard to store and transport because they're gases," says Dianne Xiao, graduate student at the University of California Berkeley. "But if you have a catalyst that can selectively turn them into alcohols, which are much easier to transfer and store," she says. "that would make things a lot easier."
Xiao and Jeffrey Long, scientist in Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and professor of chemistry at the UC Berkeley focused this project on converting ethane to ethanol.
Jeff Long, Materials Sciences scientist, with student Dianne Xiao. The team's research enabled MOFs to oxidize ethane to ethanol. Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt
Ethanol is a potential alternative fuel that burns cleaner and has a higher energy density than other alternative fuels like methanol. One problem with ethanol, however, is that current methods for production require extreme heat, which makes it expensive.
The innovation came when Long and Xiao designed a material called Fe-MOF-74, in a class of materials called metal-organic frameworks or MOFs. Because of their cage-shaped structures, MOFs boast a high surface area, which mean they can absorb extremely large amounts of gas or liquid compared to the weight of the MOF itself.
Since MOFs are essentially structured like a collection of tiny cages, they can capture other molecules, acting as a filter. Additionally, they can perform chemistry as molecules pass through the cages, becoming little chemical factories that convert one substance to another.
It's this chemical-conversion feature of MOFs that Long and Xiao took advantage of. Ethane is a molecule made of two carbon atoms where each atom is surrounded by atoms of hydrogen. Ethanol is also made of two carbon atoms bonded to hydrogen atoms, but one of its carbon atoms is also bonded to a hydrogen-oxygen ion called a hydroxyl.
Previous attempts to add a hydroxyl ion to ethane to make ethanol have required high pressure and high temperatures that range from 200 to 300 degrees Celsius. It's costly and inconvenient.
But by using a specially designed MOF—one in which a kind of iron was added inside the tiny molecular cages—the researchers were able to reduce the need for extreme heat, converting ethane to alcohol at just 75 degrees Celsius.
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How much did I need to say?
I am going to resign as President of a volunteer organization that I've become more and more disillusioned with over the past three years.
I feel all I need to say is "For personal reason, I am hereby submitting my resignation as President and member of the board of..." and leave it at that. A close friend suggested I may want to say more, but quite frankly, I feel that covers it enough.
There's a lot more to this, but I don't want to go into all the gory details.
I always appreciate the input I receive here.
I too went thru something similar, and what you stated sounds fine to me. Sometimes less is better. Maybe it is time to move on to a different organization or just relax and enjoy time with your family. The job of being a President or leader of ANY organization is never easy. I do wish you the best.
I am enjoying my hobbies so much more with the extra time I have.
I totally agree with everything that has been said. Just resign and move on with your life. There are so many groups that would love to have you as a member that there is no reason to stick with one you don't enjoy anymore. You should enjoy your time and the voluntter work you do not dread it. Dreading is for when you are stuck in a job you can't quit!!!!
Thanks all. I knew I could count on you folks to help me out.
Maire, those are good adages, however, there is no way I'd ever consider going back to that organization.
I do know I can expect at least three phone calls and I guarantee one of them will be "What personal reasons". I'm one of those type who feels the need to explain myself, but not in this case.
Thanks again all.
Steve, be careful with those phone calls. Don't say anything more than what you said in your statement, not to any caller or member of the organization who will be digging for dirt. Whatever you say WILL get back to everyone. If you say in private, "I've had it with So-and-So's behavior at meetings," be assured that So-and-So will hear about it within minutes.
So memorize your statement and stick to it. Been there, etc etc.
I do know I can expect at least three phone calls and I guarantee one of them will be "What personal reasons".
Here is a suggestion a dear friend gave me years ago, to deal with personal or noisy questions she didn't want to answer.
Personal questioner, "What personal reasons?"
Friend, "I don't believe I said."
Personal questioner, "What personal reasons?"
Friend, "I don't believe I said."
Personal questioner, "What personal reasons?"
Friend, "I don't believe I said."
After a while the 'personal questioner' soon got the message and backed off.
I wouldn't even say "personal reasons" on the resignation.
I would just state "please accept my resignation as President of ____" It has been a pleasure serving. Thank you".
When asked, just say " I just felt it was time to move on and let someone else take the postition."
In my opinion - it is always good to "change the management" once in a while anyway.
Kuddo's for you on volunteering!
I agree with iowagirl2006. Sometimes you really, really WANT to get it off your mind and tell people why you're doing something,, but I think that is EXACTLY when you bite your tongue and just be gracious and go on with your life.....
The less said, the better. Unless, of course, you're LOOKING for a soapbox?
Thanks all.
I've been considering this action since our first major flap in March, but decided to tough it out. Well, it didn't get better, but steadily worse which finally culminated in my resigning.
The one thing I forgot was to also send off a formal letter to the organization, which I did this afternoon. Duh, you'd think after all those years of being a secretary/administrative and executive assistant I'd have remembered that.
I wrestled with this all last night which didn't help me any at all and that's when I finally decided "tain't worth it". As I type this I feel like a boulder has been lifted off of my shoulders.
Again, thank you, thank you, thank you all for your insight and your patience.
KTer's are the best!
Thanks for your input Iowagirl and linda in iowa. I went ahead with the "for personal reasons" and then read your suggestion.
I really don't care if it causes speculation. I could give these people a specific reason and some of them would still speculate "hmm, that's not the real reason..."
I'm sure you've tried to deliver your message and reasons to the group for quite sometime. If the group doesn't get it, no matter how much more you talk, they won't. Your action should say enough if not all.
I've volunteered and lead various organizations for years. I notice that those who volunteer normally fall into 2 categories: Those that are driven from the heart and those that are driven for the glory & attention. This is where the challenge of being a leader comes in.
Due to my physical condition, I no longer can go out to volunteer. Nevertheless, when the heart is in the right place, there are always plenty of opportunities to do good toward mankind.
So, what ARE your personal reasons????
Yes inquiring minds want to know haha
Congrats On making this big decision. The time will come when you miss certain parts of the job but that is just temporary. Enjoy Life and remember we are still here for you !!
Kat and all,
Yes, I did receive three phone calls, but not the ones I expected.
All three were from supportive board members who were concerned, but didn't ask any questions. They just wanted to let me know they were there for me.
I did receive two emails from those that I expected might call. LOL. All they said is basically "What are we going to do now?" Didn't bother answering them as it's not my problem now. Up to the remaining board members to figure it out.


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All five of the militants who were holed up in two buildings under construction were killed by the afternoon, a provincial government and army official said.
The shoot-out erupted hours after an attack on Peshawar airport. The military declared the airport secure after killing five attackers who rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into the outer wall of the airfield and battled guards after dark on Saturday.
The raid on the airport was the biggest assault on a high-profile military facility in Pakistan since gunmen stormed an air base in the province of Punjab in August, and underscored the resilience and reach of Pakistan's Taliban insurgents.
The Pakistani Taliban, who have been fighting for more than five years to overthrow the state, said they had sent 10 men to attack the airport.
"Five militants were hiding in an under-construction house near Peshawar airport," said Mian Iftikhar Hussain, a spokesman for the provincial government, on Sunday.
"All of them were suicide bombers. They had weapons and hand grenades."
One policeman was killed and two wounded in the clash on Sunday, he said.
During the Saturday night attack on the airport, three rockets slammed into a nearby residential area. Health and police officials said at least four civilians had been killed and 45 wounded in the flurry of blasts and gunshots.
Authorities sealed off the airport, which handles military and civilian traffic, during the attack and suspended flights.
The gritty streets of Peshawar, the gateway to the Khyber Pass and Afghanistan beyond, have often been shaken by bomb attacks and shootings, but residents said this was the first significant raid on the heavily guarded airport.
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Of course, the best thing Wordpress can do is to listen to corporate counsel and pay attention, but I'm no lawyer, so don't listen to me.
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They want to intimidate.
How about someobody go postal on their asses, go into their building with a few AR-15s, shoot everybody and burn the fucking building to the ground?
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Season canceled through Jan. 14
Dec 20, 2012, 3:56 PM EDT
We knew more game cancellations would be coming soon, and according to Sportsnet's Nick Kypreos (and oddly ESPN's Bill Simmons), they're coming today or tomorrow.
(Update: They came today.)
The schedule, currently scrapped through Dec. 30, will be canceled through Jan. 14.
So…where does that leave things?
Well, NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly said yesterday that the season's point of no return was "sometime in mid-January." It's possible then that the next cancellation could be the season in its entirety.
On the bright side, Daly also said yesterday he expects there to be a season, to which NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr responded: "I certainly hope he's right."
Hearing NHL will cancel up to Jan. 14. No more BS, we're at the end.—
Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) December 20, 2012
Expect word today\tonight the NHL will cancel regular season games thru Jan 14th. End of the line after that...I suspect.—
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A total of 625 regular-season games—50.8 percent of the season—were scheduled for October 11 through January 14.
- id4joey - Dec 21, 2012 at 8:10 AM
All I can tell you right now is wait and see. Bergeron is standing by his "done deal". And I wrote the season would start on or near Jan 10.
- starsfan11 - Dec 21, 2012 at 8:14 AM
Just shut up already Joey. Not one single respected hockey writer from TSN, ESPN, or the Canadian newspapers have reported anything about this. I even emailed James Mirtle and he said not true.
- id4joey - Dec 21, 2012 at 9:17 AM
starsfan11, James who? I just got off the phone with Bergeron. I've know him since he starting coaching minor hockey in Montreal. He said "Done deal!". James Mirtle my a$$..
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- kiopta1 - Dec 21, 2012 at 8:32 AM
It's the train wreck that doesn't end much like what the House just did to America.
- omniusprime - Dec 21, 2012 at 9:07 AM
Excellent news that more games have been cancelled!!! Maybe the NHL can bring in Crybaby Boehner who will come up with a Plan BS for ending the strike the way he didn't for helping America not go over the fiscal cliff. I know, the Mayan apocalypse warning was for the NHL ending!
Just too funny how incompetent the NHL negotiators have been. Hopefully they'll keep up their good work so that we'll all enjoy the great news that the whole NHL season is cancelled.
Na na na na, Na na na na, Hey-ey Goodbye!!!
- dannythebisforbeast - Dec 21, 2012 at 12:19 PM
Who cares their greed and unabashed disrespect of the fans has tuned me out. Sure I'll watch on TV. the only game I will go to if there is a season that is would be a clinching game of the stanley cup. Other than that my money is staying in my pocket
- starsfan11 - Dec 21, 2012 at 2:58 PM
Again, not one single person is reporting the same thing as your boy, Bergeron. If there was a "done deal" it would be leaked out already.
- id4joey - Dec 21, 2012 at 5:28 PM
You can look at it that way. But then it wouldn't be a scoop. I know this guy personally, he hasn't always done things with great intelligence, which one time cost him his job as head coach of the NY Rangers. However, he is a straight shooter and would not BS about this. So I'm sticking by his words. Call it hope. At least it's something to hold on to.
- sportsfan69 - Dec 21, 2012 at 5:46 PM
Conrade Joey,
Thanks for the information. To the haters out there, No Negative Ways Please!
- ksctychiefs - Dec 26, 2012 at 2:46 PM
jan 14th??!!…..2014?….or 2015?….one sure thing is that this season needs a fork stuck in it …it's done!!….
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U.K.'s Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden Buys Post-Production House
LONDON - Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden, the Hollywood major's studio just outside of London, has acquired U.K. sound mixing and post-production facility De Lane Lea.
The acquisition means the studio can now offer full post-production services to in-house film and TV productions and external clients in addition its production facilities and on-site production rentals at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden, "mirroring the offer presented to filmmakers at Warner Bros.' headquarters in Burbank, California."
Part of the film and TV production community of London's Soho district for 65 years, De Lane Lea will be renamed Warner Bros. De Lane Lea in the coming weeks. It houses three re-recording stages, two Additional Dialog Recording (ADR) stages, 40 picture editing suites, one TV mixing stage, a transfer bay for the digital delivery, conversion and ingestion of picture and sound, a 37 seat screening room and a client lounge.
De Lane Lea has served as the post-production home of such recent movies as Skyfall, Frankenweenie, Prometheus and Dark Shadows.
Warner Bros.' association with the facility stretches as far back as 40 years with its post-production work on John Boorman's 1972 picture, Deliverance.
The upcoming Warner Bros. movie Gravity, directed by Alfonso Cuaron and starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock, is currently in post-production at De Lane Lea.
No financial details were disclosed.
The acquisition was announced Wednesday by Josh Berger, president and managing director, Warner Bros. UK, Ireland and Spain, Dan Dark, senior vp and managing director, Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden and Kim Waugh, senior vp, post-production services, Warner Bros. Studio Facilities.
Berger said: "Just five months on from the opening of Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden, this latest acquisition is further evidence of our commitment to the U.K. film industry and the world-leading Greater London media cluster. Through its many years of operating, De Lane Lea has earned a power-house reputation for servicing tent-pole movies for us and other studios and, as we look to invest in the facility in the coming months and years, this standing can only grow even further."
Dark noted the "central London means that we will be able to provide a convenient one-stop shop for all kinds of production needs, both in-house and external clients."
Added Waugh: "By owning and operating our own post-production facility in the U.K., we're increasing the flexibility and scheduling of our own post-production requirements, as well as those of other studios."
Formerly the production home of all eight Harry Potter films, Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden is spread across a secure 200-acre site and houses a collection of some of the largest sound stages in the U.K. spanning over a quarter of a million square feet, including one of the largest heated underwater filming tanks in Europe.
In addition, the site provides a clear horizon 100 acre back-lot, one of the most extensive in Europe, which can be adapted for any production need.
All You Need is Kill, the Doug Liman directed sci-fi thriller starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt, is currently shooting at the studios.
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Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Israel is prepared for a "significant expansion" of the ground invasion in Gaza, after overnight bombardments killed dozens of Palestinians.
The Israeli prime minister said on Friday he had instructed the army to "prepare for the possibility of significantly widening the ground operation".
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The Israeli army announced that a soldier had been killed and two others were wounded in operations inside Gaza.
The overall death toll has risen to at least 285 Palestinians since the beginning of Israel's operation eleven days ago.
Israeli troops had moved several kilometres into the territory in operations the army said were targeting tunnels used by Hamas but the incursions so far appeared limited.
Gaza City resident Ebaa Rezeq told Al Jazeera that while Israeli soldiers remained near the buffer zone, air raids and shelling were continuing to terrify civilians.
In one of the air raids, a building housing local media offices in Gaza City was struck by three bombs. Israel maintains that the offensive is to destabilise Hamas and "demilitarise" Gaza.
Al Jazeera's Nicole Johnston, reporting from Gaza, said that the attack was "just a small example of what's been happening here across Gaza Strip all night".
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On Thursday morning, a group of attackers had tried to enter southern Israel through a tunnel from Gaza. The Israeli army said eight of the 13 men were killed.
The Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said it carried out the raid.
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Sovereign wealth fund investment patterns and performance Comments on paper by Bortolotti, Fotak, Megginson and Miracky Dubravko Mihaljek Bank for International Settlements Discussion at the 15th Dubrovnik Economic Conference of the HNB Dubrovnik, 25 June 2009 The views expressed are those of the discussant and not necessarily those of the BIS. 1 Overview of remarks 1. What we knew about SWFs before this paper 2. Some questions of interest to central banks 3. Questions addressed in the paper 4. Comments on the paper 2 What we knew about SWFs before this paper SWFs largely found in resource-rich, oil-exporting EMEs SWFs for the most part funded by real wealth Only China, Hong Kong SAR and Singapore operate larger sovereign wealth funds in non-resource-based economies. 3 What we knew … Structure of SWFs (mid-2008) USD bil. % Oil and commodities 1,752 63 Other 1,009 37 Own funds 2,365 86 Borrowed funds 395 14 "Pure" SWFs 2,297 83 Stabilisation funds 277 10 Saving funds 186 7 Emerging markets 2,236 81 Other 525 19 Middle East 1,061 38 Emerging Asia 928 34 Advanced economies 525 19 Other 246 9 4 What we knew … SWF assets growing rapidly Private sector estimates: $12 trillion by 2015; larger than forex reserves by 2011 IMF estimate $6-10 billion by 2013 Caveats: estimates based on tenuous assumptions about • future commodity prices • pace of forex reserves accumulation • allocation of the increase in reserves between SWFs and official reserves 5 What we knew … SWFs compared (2007) USD bil. % Sovereign wealth funds 2,800 100 Global private investment funds 59,000 5 – Pension funds 21,600 13 – Investment funds 19,300 15 – Insurance funds 18,500 15 Official foreign exchange reserves 5,700 49 Hedge Funds 1,500 187 Private Equity Funds 700 400 6 What we knew … SWFs play an important role in macroeconomic stabilisation in resource-based economies Macroeconomic rationale for the operation of SWFs in countries where such funds were carved out of "excess" forex reserves is not obvious The financial rationale for the operation of such SWFs not entirely clear, either – need to achieve high "hurdle rates" SWFs probably played an important role in the growth of capital outflows from EMEs 7 SWFs: some questions of interest to central banks 1. Links with fiscal policy 2. Links with monetary and exchange rate policies 3. SWFs and capital flows 8 Links with fiscal policy • Accumulation and withdrawal rules – integration of the fund with the state budget – Norway's 4% rule • Spending (eg, repayment of public external debt) and/or lending authority (not recommended) • Is there sufficient control of spending and deficits on the regular budget? – Chile's 1% structural surplus rule Countries with fiscal deficits and/or weak fiscal governance should not establish SWFs 9 Links with monetary and exchange rate policies Case 1: Government has own foreign currency revenue (eg, from exports of state oil or copper company) channel forex revenue to the SWF, invest abroad to avoid exchange rate, inflationary pressures / need for sterilisation Case 2: SWF assets derive from foreign currency acquired through sterilised forex intervention or other borrowed funds – determine the level of "excess" reserves – determine whether the operation of the fund reduces the need for central bank intervention and sterilisation – determine "hurdle" RoR > (cost of local debt) + (expected appreciation of local currency) 10 Links with monetary and exchange rate policies (3) • Designing institutional setup of SWF Should the fund be: – Integrated with central bank operations (HKMA); – Operated as a standalone entity (most SWFs); or – Established as a separate unit within the central bank (Norway)? 11 SWFs and capital flows Role of SWFs in "reverse" capital outflows from EMEs to advanced economies Role of SWFs from China, Singapore and the Middle East in recapitalising troubled financial institutions from Europe and US in late 2007 and early 2008: $80 billion, 8% of estimated private sector capital outflows from emerging market countries in 2007 If all SWF assets from EMEs ($2.3 tril.) were invested abroad, they would account for 30% of the foreign assets held by the public and private sectors of EMEs in 2006 12 Questions addressed in Megginson et al paper What do SWFs invest in? How do SWFs invest? Performance of SWF investments Can help central banks and other policy makers understand whether they should worry about SWFs, set up their own SWF 13 Comments on Megginson et al paper Paper addressed to the academic / empirical finance community Unique data base Descriptive and statistical analysis of the data on SWF transactions Econometric analysis of the determinants of "abnormal" returns 14 Comments (Moderately) heavy on finance jargon Important terms ("abnormal" returns, agency costs, various SWF indices) not explained / not explained well until very late in the paper Imbalance between the descriptive narrative (long) and technical analysis (often cursory) 15 Comments Statistical methodology Definition of "abnormal" returns: deviation from the local equity index Is only the average return "normal"? Shouldn't there be some confidence bands around the average return? 16 Comments Econometric methodology OLS Dependent variable is constructed ("abnormal" return) 13 explanatory variables • 6 dummy variables • 4 constructed variables (Truman indices of SWF governance ) • 1 lagged dependent variable • 2 variables measuring percentage of shares acquired (%, % squared) 17 Comments How informative are such regressions? Most parameter estimates insignificant Have potential problems with multicollinearity (dummy variable trap) in panel data estimations (especially with fixed effects) been properly treated? 18 Comments Can we take Truman indices at face value? No discussion of their reliability; black boxes Indices of governance, accountability and transparency, behaviour, are bound to be highly correlated Look at Aizenman and Glick (SFO Fed, Dec. 2008) 19 Comments How do results in the paper compare with published reports about SWF performance? Norway's Pension Fund – Global Temasek: average annual return on assets 18% in local currency terms during the lifetime of its operations; 27% during 2006-07 GIC (at the 25th anniversary of its founding): average annual yield on its investments from 1981 to 2006 • 9.5% in US dollar terms • 8.2% in SGD • 5.3% above global (G-3) inflation 20
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Garden Writing, an uncertain art
One problem with writing about gardens and plants is that there are so few constants.
In food writing, which I have also done, most items are fairly steady (aside from fads, which soon run their course). In your kitchen, you can take a recipe and create a dish from it with reasonable accuracy and with appealing presentation and flavor. Following a few basic rules, you can mix foods and recipes from different cultures and come up with a delectable whole. And you know that your readers can safely pass that recipe on to their children and grandchildren.
But matters are not that easy in the garden. You tell your readers that February is a great time for planting, and your region is hit by unseasonable frosts and snow storms. You write about certain fruits, and the summer turns wet and cold and nothing ripens. Or temperatures soar, a water shortage prevents you from keeping your plants moist, and your garden dries up. You praise a hosta variety, and it develops a virus. A tree you extol becomes the favorite food of a newly imported beetle or fungus. You talk about a plant you hate because you can never get it to grow or bloom, and readers will immediately write to you, telling you how they love this plant, how well it grows and blooms for them, and how they don't understand your problem. They may even tell you that folks with black thumbs shouldn't be allowed to write about gardening.
What all this adds up to is that garden writing is highly uncertain and thus -- potentially -- very exciting, but it can also be hard on the writer's ego.
John, well said.
I've written a few articles for garden magazines and am careful to not write in terms of 'absolutes'. Gardening is not an exact science and is full of exceptions. I don't write you 'can't' grow this plant or one 'must to' do this or that. Just when you're sure a particular plant can't grow in your zone, etc. then you find some non-gardener has one merrily thriving beside the garage, completely neglected for the last 20 years. It's better to write about personal 'favorites' for a situation than 'best' plants. Or 'what works for me' rather than what one 'has to do'. This leaves room for exceptions to the rule and experiences outside of our own.
We must also remember that in many ecologies we just don't have a long track record. Often only decades and not hundreds of years as in Europe. The wealth of knowledge that comes out of an English garden is valuable but toss in a few new variables and...?
Any non-fiction writer's most important tool is their credibility. If readers think you are well grounded in facts and experience then you can be more creative in tackling more fringe topics. It's a bit of a no-brainer but I've found keen gardeners just like reading about gardening even when the topic is off season or not relevant to their own situation. In fact, many gardeners bemoan the lack of garden shows on television or gardening newspaper atricles more so in the depths of winter rather than in the height of the garden season.
In my opinion a garden is most successful when it does one thing well rather than a lot of things half-heartedly, garden books are the same. I would rather read an in depth study of, say, the history of John's garden, than a book that skimmed the surface of "The History of Gardens". I would rather read about one persons relationship with their garden than yet another book telling me that camellias don't like morning sun. A book that told a personal story that incidentally told about the importance of knowing your microclimate would suit me better than a dry textbook explaining it with diagrams from research done in 1934. A book written from the heart and not the ego.
The beauty of writing for newpapers, which do not pay well, is that you can take local conditions into consideration and write to those. Floods, droughts, late frosts etc hit everyone, but cannot be addressed 4mnths ahead of time in magazines.
This morning, I caught myself doing something I once swore I never would: I removed two garden "features" because I found it difficult to explain them in my book. I won't go into details (you'll have to read the book for that) but let's just say that they were the result of a fun idea that suffered because I had to travel for a month as soon as I started them. When I returned, I could not complete the original design. Last year, they began to look decidedly ugly. But for some reason, it did not occur to me that I could remove them. (I must have just glossed over them whenever I looked at the garden.)
This morning, I noticed that they began to interfere with growth of a hydrangea and a dwarf apple tree. They also retained water which turned an adjacent area into a swamp. Out they went.
Of course, I will write about their genesis, short life, demise. and successors. But first I'll have to decide what to put in their places -- something I can write about, of course.
I had a one page space in a garden magazine for about four years. I presented garden related subjects in humorous, inspirational, thoughtful, but also informative ways. I always thought there should be more of that in gardening magazines because pretty pictures and how to pieces can be enjoyed to some extent just by glossing over them. I tried to make the reader want to complete reading my articles by the way the subjects were presented. It is over five years since I last appeared in that magazine, but occasionally I come across someone who mentions my work.


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