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Ground cherries, in the same plant genus as tomatillos, are so wonderfully sweet. I'll have to look up which ones i am growing, but i am delighted with them. Monday i had a handful of blueberries in yogurt spread on one rice cake and five ground cherries on the other. The blueberries, while sweet, were no match for the plain Greek yogurt. The ground cherries, however, exploded with delight.
I think, if i started enough plants, the ground cherries might survive deer and rabbit pressure. I think they also companion well with corn, at least on the sunny side of the corn plot. I'd love to make a list of possible plants to be kept beyond fencing. The pop corn survived deer pressure, i speculate because there's better browse around when the corn is tender. Onions and other alliums are unpalatable.
A natural experiment began on Monday where i will find out if the rabbits were the ones eating the winter squash, as there's a tendril reaching out from the garden fence now. There's not as much cover near the garden fence from a rabbit's point of view. As of Thursday, the tendrils were unmolested.
One year the mouse melon was growing where deer could get to it. It thrived. So that might be fine. Although the rabbit pressure seems new. I dunno about my ability to judge herbivory: i would have thought the kale would survive deer pressure, but this year they keep returning for the tender leaves: and that's clearly out of rabbit reach.
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I am pondering branding using characteristics of people and wonder if there are brands that use religious organization names OTHER than Quaker. While, yes, Quaker Oats is using a positive stereotype in associating Quaker with "honest" and "good value", I wish they'd take a moment to think about THAT brand while retiring Aunt Jemima.
I think using the name of a sect is slightly different than "Trinity This" or "Tree of Life That." But the name of gods, that apparently done. ODIN Brands selling human cell cultures... is a bit problematic. (Ah, biohackers. No worries THERE.) Freya lingerie. Hmph. Also menstural cups. Ha, i'm silly to be surprised. Venus and Mars everywhere.
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In theory i am taking today off. In practice, well, i will get a half day in at least. It's been more and more frequent that i am working late. For a while i figured it averaged out with not getting to the desk on the dot in the morning, but i think i need to start trying to balance it.
I think, if i started enough plants, the ground cherries might survive deer and rabbit pressure. I think they also companion well with corn, at least on the sunny side of the corn plot. I'd love to make a list of possible plants to be kept beyond fencing. The pop corn survived deer pressure, i speculate because there's better browse around when the corn is tender. Onions and other alliums are unpalatable.
A natural experiment began on Monday where i will find out if the rabbits were the ones eating the winter squash, as there's a tendril reaching out from the garden fence now. There's not as much cover near the garden fence from a rabbit's point of view. As of Thursday, the tendrils were unmolested.
One year the mouse melon was growing where deer could get to it. It thrived. So that might be fine. Although the rabbit pressure seems new. I dunno about my ability to judge herbivory: i would have thought the kale would survive deer pressure, but this year they keep returning for the tender leaves: and that's clearly out of rabbit reach.
--== ∞ ==--
I am pondering branding using characteristics of people and wonder if there are brands that use religious organization names OTHER than Quaker. While, yes, Quaker Oats is using a positive stereotype in associating Quaker with "honest" and "good value", I wish they'd take a moment to think about THAT brand while retiring Aunt Jemima.
I think using the name of a sect is slightly different than "Trinity This" or "Tree of Life That." But the name of gods, that apparently done. ODIN Brands selling human cell cultures... is a bit problematic. (Ah, biohackers. No worries THERE.) Freya lingerie. Hmph. Also menstural cups. Ha, i'm silly to be surprised. Venus and Mars everywhere.
--== ∞ ==-
In theory i am taking today off. In practice, well, i will get a half day in at least. It's been more and more frequent that i am working late. For a while i figured it averaged out with not getting to the desk on the dot in the morning, but i think i need to start trying to balance it.
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I feel in your second section we both have touched on a similar thought, and I wish to share mine. Feel free to skip or skim.
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I've moved and been apart from my Quaker community of Chicago for some time. Though my wife still introduces me to our Anglican friends as a Quaker, I no longer claim to follow Quaker rituals though I still hold many of the common testimonies with me, especially non-violence. Though I've drifted much, I am able to see how I perceived well-regarded religious thinkers and authors of the Quaker tradition. I think I mistakenly idolized some in the hopes to be more like Jesus through them, as my Hindu Literature professor taught us about idols in Hindu, I've used Quaker authors as a way to interface with God.
As of late, I've been taking time to read a prayer book, most days. And it has helped me connect to other traditions in Christianity. I understand many Quakers do not identify as Christians. But I see Quaker history affiliated with Christianity and to an extent many of my Quaker friends are also friends and followers of Jesus.
While studying Quaker tradition, I came very close to enrolling at Earlham and was set to study there until life swept me away and instead I actually started this journal.
Sorry to ramble. Your thoughts have met mine where I'm also thinking about Quaker oats as well as other symbols and idols we use to describe the ideal. In some ways they are problematic. A lot of symbols age poorly while the ideas they are to allude seem untouched sometimes. Yet the symbols are somehow more attached to earth, they are not only what I see and hope for but attached to my physical condition, which sometimes holds grudges or things I wish the world could not see. But it is there. And I don't think it is gross or bad... as I also believe it is redeemed, though I hope we strive to "do better" or as my Anglican friends share with me "produce fruits of faith."