by Lora | Nov 14, 2019 | Garden, Sustainability
A promotional video for the value of Conservation Districts to homeowners shows our garden results a year after construction of the rain garden. The Better Ground campaign promotes Conservation Districts. In March 2019 we received a surprise letter in the mail. The...
by Lora | Oct 22, 2019 | Sustainability
When I learned about the strike for the climate instigated by Greta Thunberg, I sought somewhere I could join students taking to the streets for the climate. I wanted a location I could reach without contributing to the problem. Every place I could find required a...
by Lora | Sep 21, 2019 | Healthy Food, Nature, Sustainability, Travel
Closer to home than my previous trip, on a drizzly September weekend with rain in the forecast I attended the Pacific NW Writers’ Association writing conference at a hotel on International Boulevard across the street from SeaTac airport. Getting to a destination...
by Lora | Aug 22, 2019 | Nature, Sustainability
What if you had to give up twenty percent of your life? that is one-fifth. If you get the recommended eight hours of sleep every night, that’s thirty-three percent. Would you give up almost five hours of sleep? What else could you give up? eating? drinking? How...
by Lora | Jul 22, 2019 | Community, Nature
Don’t Blink! If you blink you could miss a moment! That is not to say your eyes must stay open every one of the 86,400 seconds of every day, or 604,800 seconds every week, or 31,536,000 seconds of every year … . I know the time I have spent with my eyes wide open has...
