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Birth, Life, Death, and a Curtsey

Sometimes you get to see an entire life cycle, to feel as old as a mountain as forests rise and fall at your toes.  At our house this meant watching a pair of red house finches build a nest under

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Plus One Beer, Minus One Chicken

Life’s about balance, right?  Yesterday I got to bring the beer I’d brought to life a little over a month ago.  I was so excited to taste it that I forgot to refrigerate it, something I only noticed halfway through.

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Life

  It died where it lived, among the blossoms and leaves of our garden.  It’s a thrill to be so close to such a small delicate thing that normally speeds around the garden in a blur, faster than our human

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Children and Death

How do you explain death to a child when you understand so little about it yourself? Last night I found myself struggling to come up with an easy way to broach the subject with my daughter, a three-and-a-half year old

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