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Feb 17, 2016 HG. After spending a year directing and producing a documentary on homelessness in the LA area,. Hope For Our Own: An LA Story. Riley Beres, then 15 years old, began to see a need for a somewhat surprising resource: clean socks for those in need. Something so insignificant to many of us, yet Riley felt it would make a significant difference for the homeless. So she started an organization whose sole purpose was to raise funds and collect socks. Image by Lee Jeffries. Image by Lee Jeffries.
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Mad Dabblings in a City Garden: November 2012
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Thursday, November 1, 2012. If youre squeamish about mice you can stop reading now. I am rather fond of them. And though I cant tell one from the other, we have several that romp around the house, most frequently around the kitchen, where they skitter across the counters when the lights are out and were immersed in something cultural on TV, like Survivor or Dancing with the Stars. They are usually unnoticed except for our occasional need for refreshment. Look at this Face! His most recent announcement, ...
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Mad Dabblings in a City Garden: July 2013
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Monday, July 15, 2013. Why do I feel like a wastrel when lying abed on a sunny Sunday afternoon, nose to book, and somehow industrious when doing the same while basted and splayed out at the beach? This has nothing to do with the subject at hand, yet again renovating the window boxes, but it's a stuck thought that needed to shake lose. Of course, tragedy also occurs with fish, when one allows one's prince to tend to one's pond- though I am never one to assess blame. Fine, but a little dull. Michael's sup...
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Mad Dabblings in a City Garden: October 2012
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Sunday, October 21, 2012. Dracunculus Vulgaris, My Holy Grail? I recently decided to begin fiddling with twitter and am reveling in my popularity. In virtually no time - just a few weeks- I have ten followers. Some might say eight, since the list includes my daughter and my sister who charitably plonked my twitter follow button, which will probably be the end of their involvement with my communications. Of people that are talking to themselves. . Posted by Stephanie Cavanaugh. Links to this post. Theres ...
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Mad Dabblings in a City Garden: On Faking It ... Again
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Monday, June 22, 2015. On Faking It . Again. Observe my forlorn hydrangea Margot. She's eight or ten or who knows how old now with one lousy blossom. This is all the flowering I can expect this summer as the hydrangea sets bud for the following season on the current season's woody stalks, which they more or less reliably do - unless some Prince wanders by with loppers and in a fit of neatness (would that such a fit take hold in the garage) lops off the buds in September. Yesterday, in what will be will b...
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Mad Dabblings in a City Garden: June 2015
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Tuesday, June 30, 2015. Grown Any Good Books Lately? On Capitol Hill they're pushing up like weeds, the free book boxes. Some are organized under the umbrella of littlefreelibrary.org, a group I'd never heard of until yesterday but is apparently an international org with on-line maps showing people desperate for something to read where to find boxes in places like Turin and Detroit. They also sell labels and placards and brochures and suggest building plans and materials. Capitol Hill Books Window. Some ...
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Mad Dabblings in a City Garden: A Rambling Tale of Hydrangeas
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Sunday, June 12, 2011. A Rambling Tale of Hydrangeas. That house was quite the argument for staging. It had been on the market for many months without an offer, despite an excellent location in upper Northwest Washington, a pleasing front porch, large sunny rooms and an increasingly modest price tag- so victimized was it by its owner's deranged sense of style. All of the cabinets in the kitchen were harvest gold metal that made tinny shudders when opened. The wallpaper was of tea kettles and kittens.
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Mad Dabblings in a City Garden: The NY Times is High on Pots - What are they Smoking?
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Thursday, July 30, 2015. The NY Times is High on Pots - What are they Smoking? Stone Urn on a Concrete Pillar. Sometimes, and by this I mean daily, the design pages of the New York Times. Provoke me to scream, ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MINDS? And I say this fondly, being an ex-New Yorker, born and raised and schooled and once able to tell at a glance a real Gucci bit on a shoe from a knock-off - and consider this essential information. The collection, by "designer" Trey Jones, begins. Otherly, every otherly, t...
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Mad Dabblings in a City Garden: Oh Willow Weep for Me! A Gardening Trail of Tears.
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Friday, June 26, 2015. Oh Willow Weep for Me! A Gardening Trail of Tears. A Stand of Lilies. This is what you call a stand of lilies. Oh, I suppose if you had acres to occupy you might do a lusher job, but here we're talking about a bitty border on a city street - so it's quite a sight. And there's no support or ties or whatnots. The stalks are proudly upright and massed with yellow trumpets. A Droop of Lily. And to think of all the self-congratulatory yelping that went on as I left the house with a fond...
