Tag Archives: lemon trees
Trees as Story-Hoarders
Someday, I would like to live near a weeping willow. “You’re mad! It’ll wreck your water pipes!” My beloved friend S., with her bucketful of sobering practicality. “Their roots are so long, they’ll reach out from the bottom of your … Continue reading
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Tagged cambridge, cedar of lebanon, copper beech, katherine gregor, lemon trees, magic, musings, scribe doll, trees, weeping willows, writing
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In the Bleakness, a Bright Green Shoot
Seedless oranges, seedless clementines, seedless grapes. The words are displayed in large letters on the glossy supermarket shelf labels, or squares of brown cardboard on the stalls of street vendors. Seedless. As an incentive for buying. I shrink in horror … Continue reading
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Tagged genetic manipulation, gm foods, hope, katherine gregor, lemon trees, life, scribe doll, seedless fruit
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Scribe Doll 