

Marie McKinsey
- Apr 18, 2014
- 3 min
Lavender Blues
As Tom Robbins, another of my favorite authors, says in his novel, JITTERBUG PERFUME, "with immediacy and intensity, smell activates the me
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Marie McKinsey
- Apr 14, 2014
- 1 min
A Gaelic Blessing
This fun little song was part of my community choir's 30th Anniversary concert.
I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed sing
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Marie McKinsey
- Apr 13, 2014
- 3 min
Rhododendron Hell
"Roger didn't need to read it; he knew well enough the thoughts that were going through the other's mind. The same thoughts he'd wrestled with, during those weeks between Beltane and Midsummer's Eve, during the search for Brianna across the ocean, during his captivity - and at the last, in the circle in the rhododendron hell, hearing the song of the standing stones." -- DRUMS OF AUTUMN, by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 71 Where I live, in Washington State, "rhododendron hell" is t
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Marie McKinsey
- Apr 11, 2014
- 3 min
Garlic - a Food, a Medicine, an Aphrodisiac?!
Claire might not have known how to grow garlic before Mrs. FitzGibbons handed her that basket of cloves and a digging stick, but she was und
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Marie McKinsey
- Apr 5, 2014
- 3 min
Stinging Nettles
If you've ever encountered a stinging nettle, you have no trouble understanding how being flogged with a bunch of them would be an effective
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Marie McKinsey
- Apr 1, 2014
- 2 min
The Little Blue Flower At The Start Of It All
If it is possible for plants to travel through time, forget-me-nots would be well suited for the journey.
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