EYES TO THE SKY: Perseid meteor shower – sublime fireworks from outer space
In a dark sky lit with stars a streak of bright light appears and is gone in one inspired breath. Then, a brushstroke with a long and lasting trail carries our spirit on a sublime ride. A meteor is...
View ArticleNATURE’S TURN: Late-season, extra-long-season native flowers and botanical...
Atop the magenta aster, pictured above, a honeybee, sporting a small collection of yellow pollen on its leg, sips nectar. A frenzy of mostly bumble bees work the aster blossoms as October mornings...
View ArticleEYES TO THE SKY: Perseid meteor shower – sublime fireworks from outer space
In a dark sky lit with stars a streak of bright light appears and is gone in one inspired breath. Then, a brushstroke with a long and lasting trail carries our spirit on a sublime ride. A meteor is...
View ArticleNATURE’S TURN: Explore New World Plants—A Berkshire ramble on the Appalachian...
Hiking the Appalachian Trail (A.T.), the first National Scenic Trail, is pivotal in the lives of people who have experienced walking almost 2,200 miles in the Appalachian Mountains from Georgia to...
View ArticleNATURE’S TURN: ‘Diet for a Small Planet’ 50 years evolving — Are you in?
“To help save the planet, quit wasting food and eat less meat. The conservation nonprofit Rare analyzed a sweeping set of climate-change mitigation strategies in 2019. It found that getting households...
View ArticleSeven techniques to get yourself organized
As the summer comes to an end and you start thinking about starting a new season, ask yourself some questions: Is your life, or your home, encumbered with too much stuff? Would you like to organize...
View ArticleEducation and the future of humanity
Editor’s note: We are happy to welcome Cheryl Heller, Ph.D., to The Edge as a columnist. Heller is an artist, writer, designer and entrepreneur who works with leaders at every level to imagine and...
View ArticleEYES TO THE SKY: Sun speeds south, dark skies brushed with cosmic Milky Way
“The sun is a star, a hot ball of glowing gases at the heart of our solar system. Its influence extends far beyond the orbits of distant Neptune and Pluto.” — NASA “It astounds us to think about how...
View ArticleNATURE’S TURN: Harvest sunlight to feed, sustain soil life: plant cover crops...
Closely reading the landscape of late-summer and early-autumn food and flower gardens, the gardener responds to growth, flowering, fruiting, ripening, setting seed, and the call to harvest. Soil life...
View ArticleEYES TO THE SKY: Evening stars, morning stars — Let there be darkness
A week past the autumn equinox, darkness has gained 20 minutes over daylight, and darkness gains an additional 20 minutes every week during the rest of October. Evening stargazing begins earlier, and...
View ArticleNATURE’S TURN: Late-season, extra-long-season native flowers and botanical...
Atop the magenta aster, pictured above, a honeybee, sporting a small collection of yellow pollen on its leg, sips nectar. A frenzy of mostly bumble bees work the aster blossoms as October mornings...
View ArticleNATURE’S TURN: Explore New World Plants—A Berkshire ramble on the Appalachian...
Hiking the Appalachian Trail (A.T.), the first National Scenic Trail, is pivotal in the lives of people who have experienced walking almost 2,200 miles in the Appalachian Mountains from Georgia to...
View ArticleNATURE’S TURN: ‘Diet for a Small Planet’ 50 years evolving — Are you in?
“To help save the planet, quit wasting food and eat less meat. The conservation nonprofit Rare analyzed a sweeping set of climate-change mitigation strategies in 2019. It found that getting households...
View ArticleSeven techniques to get yourself organized
As the summer comes to an end and you start thinking about starting a new season, ask yourself some questions: Is your life, or your home, encumbered with too much stuff? Would you like to organize...
View ArticleEducation and the future of humanity
Editor’s note: We are happy to welcome Cheryl Heller, Ph.D., to The Edge as a columnist. Heller is an artist, writer, designer and entrepreneur who works with leaders at every level to imagine and...
View ArticleEYES TO THE SKY: Sun speeds south, dark skies brushed with cosmic Milky Way
“The sun is a star, a hot ball of glowing gases at the heart of our solar system. Its influence extends far beyond the orbits of distant Neptune and Pluto.” — NASA “It astounds us to think about how...
View ArticleNATURE’S TURN: Harvest sunlight to feed, sustain soil life: plant cover crops...
Closely reading the landscape of late-summer and early-autumn food and flower gardens, the gardener responds to growth, flowering, fruiting, ripening, setting seed, and the call to harvest. Soil life...
View ArticleEYES TO THE SKY: Evening stars, morning stars — Let there be darkness
A week past the autumn equinox, darkness has gained 20 minutes over daylight, and darkness gains an additional 20 minutes every week during the rest of October. Evening stargazing begins earlier, and...
View ArticleNATURE’S TURN: Late-season, extra-long-season native flowers and botanical...
Atop the magenta aster, pictured above, a honeybee, sporting a small collection of yellow pollen on its leg, sips nectar. A frenzy of mostly bumble bees work the aster blossoms as October mornings...
View ArticleNATURE’S TURN: Explore New World Plants—A Berkshire ramble on the Appalachian...
Hiking the Appalachian Trail (A.T.), the first National Scenic Trail, is pivotal in the lives of people who have experienced walking almost 2,200 miles in the Appalachian Mountains from Georgia to...
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