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Seven 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...

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Education 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...

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EYES 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...

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NATURE’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...

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EYES 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...

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NATURE’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...

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EYES TO THE SKY: Hunter’s Moon lights the way, with planet Jupiter, tonight...

A poetic pairing, planet Jupiter, a sparkling gem, follows the Full Hunter’s Moon from dusk today until dawn tomorrow, October 29. Observe the moon wane ever so slowly and rise about half an hour later...

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NATURE’S TURN: Boundless beauty, pressing responsibility

Our lives are nourished by the beauty of the natural world. A welcome first snowfall painted the forested Taconic Mountains and plateau on October 31, prompting me to harvest rosy-pink Hong Vit Radish...

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EYES TO THE SKY: Orion the Hunter and a tale of two suns

Orion the Hunter, a quintessential winter constellation, travels the sky all night as autumn turns toward winter. Recognized as the essence of a human figure reclining on the east-southeast horizon at...

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Seven 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Education 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...

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Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

EYES 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

NATURE’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 Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

EYES 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

NATURE’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 Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

EYES TO THE SKY: Hunter’s Moon lights the way, with planet Jupiter, tonight...

A poetic pairing, planet Jupiter, a sparkling gem, follows the Full Hunter’s Moon from dusk today until dawn tomorrow, October 29. Observe the moon wane ever so slowly and rise about half an hour later...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

NATURE’S TURN: Boundless beauty, pressing responsibility

Our lives are nourished by the beauty of the natural world. A welcome first snowfall painted the forested Taconic Mountains and plateau on October 31, prompting me to harvest rosy-pink Hong Vit Radish...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

EYES TO THE SKY: Orion the Hunter and a tale of two suns

Orion the Hunter, a quintessential winter constellation, travels the sky all night as autumn turns toward winter. Recognized as the essence of a human figure reclining on the east-southeast horizon at...

View Article

Seven 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Education 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...

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