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HOAs suck but this is the beginnings of redemptive potential:

so if you don't know the history of home owner's associations... this is a quick and easy catch-up read.

i've long hated HOAs and their weird obsessiveness with the appearance of neighbors lawns being ecologically boring. a lawn of nothing but manicured grass is nicer than seeing the nature wonder of what grows on its own? no wonder kids don't play on their yards except to trample it!

anyway, getting off my sizeable pedestal... i was reading articles about how the future is just basically endless HOAs no matter where we turn, so people have started trying to understand how to harness the nit-picky reach of modern HOAs to at least have some ability to be kind to the environment (which if you know me, you'll know my diatribe about healthy soils equating healthy souls, cuz all those contaminants in our green carpet grass lawn yard just slowly fuck us up- sorry, ranting again!).

MOVING ON. here are some articles that talked about how HOAs could do environmental good:

1. HOAs could spread sustainable yards!

2. HOAs could help the wildlife

here's to the future

#hoa #sustainable yard #wildlife #regenerative gardening

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#chelsea iris granger #death #grief

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#life lab #garden based learning

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#grief gardens

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#overlooked #black history month #the new york times #obituary

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#overlooked #the new york times #obituary

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what a lovely (and hilarious) tribute to a hilarious-sounding man. this is one of the reasons i am very into obituaries lately. i do think they can be used to help facilitate more avenues of communal memory-sharing and grieving.

#obituary #death #grief #legacy

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FORENSIC BOTANY? if these are glimpses of the future, i am ALL about it

#forensic botany #plants #botany

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The difference between a weed and a flower is a judgement.

#flowers #weeds

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With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?– Oscar Wilde

#oscar wilde #books #flowers #the moon

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botany in a day - learning to identify plants by their families

#botany #botany in a day #plant family #thomas elpel

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#trees #tree identification #tree muskateers

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who i want to be when i grow up more on her

#jumokui #tree doctor #tsukamoto konami #japan #arborist

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travels through motherhood, race, nature.

her book was amazing and this interview was as well. her way with words is delicious

#camille dungy #a guidebook to relative strangers #mothering #art #poet #mutha magazine #desiree cooper #race #black mother

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pondering Uli, the near-extinct art form of Igbo women in Nigeria

uli was an art form named after the indigo dyes used to make the paintings. it was done by women, like Eziafo Okaro, who would painting on both bodies and walls. the paintings were supposed to evoke “nature and issues in existence”.

#igbo #nigeria #uli #uli art #igbo art #eziafo okaro

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thinking about wildfires

#wildfires

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I so badly want this to be a program that every cemetery has. Not necessarily victorian-era gardens, but just grave gardens.

#woodlands cemetery #philadelphia #grave gardeners #grave gardens