Category: SOS
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Weaver’s Bottom
“Nick Bottom is a character in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream who provides comic relief throughout the play. A weaver by trade…” It has been said that Nick Bottom got his name as a play on words because so many weaver’s had ‘weaver’s bottoms’. It was a known work related injury. “Ischial bursitis (weaver’s bottom or…
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Out With the Old
To end this…unprecedented…year, are weather events breaking records around the world. There is a cartoon showing a group of people with a very long stick, looking carefully around a corner at the door marked 2022, and very gently poking the door open. The unstated being that obviously what awaits us on the other side…
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Solstice
In many cultures the coming of the winter solstice is also a celebration of light. When the sun goes away, it needs to be enticed back and many people take comfort from lighting candles or decorating with lots and lots of light. I don’t remember where I first heard the above comment, but I…
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Winter
I live in a place where there are seasons. Sometimes too many seasons if you take into consideration climate change. Now we have wildfire season, which can encompass elements of spring, summer AND autumn. But never mind. Winter is a time to hibernate for many of the animals that live here. Bears, most famously,…
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Winter
I live in a place where there are seasons. Sometimes too many seasons if you take into consideration climate change. Now we have wildfire season, which can encompass elements of spring, summer AND autumn. But never mind. Winter is a time to hibernate for many of the animals that live here. Bears, most famously,…
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Winter Arrives
It turned cold overnight. Not that we hadn’t been warned. And it IS December 17, after all. It should not have come as a surprise to people that the thermometer dropped. It is supposed to stay cold for a while and when it warms up, snow some more. Since the snowpack in the mountains…
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