| Green Gardening: Once you've gone bio-intensive ...
From the French intensive and the English biodynamic schools come the emphasis on deep soil preparation and soil nourishing mulches. Ancient Chinese agricultural practices contribute the concepts of biosustainability: Everything that comes out of the garden goes back in, one way or another. Everything the garden needs can be supplied from its own abundance. Thirty-five years ago, Alan Chadwick, an English transplant to the Bay Area, put two and two together and started getting eight or 10. Some people call it synergy; he called it bio-intensive, believing that the combined system capitalized on natural life processes. Other people tried his methods with similarly effective results. Before long, a bio-intensive movement was launched that has traveled all over the world.
An update on Scrooge, Marley, Tiny Tim, et al.
And so Mr. Scrooge kept Christmas in his heart and became a friend and benefactor to all and also got his hair and eyebrows trimmed. He made Bob Cratchit a partner, and an orthopedic surgeon fixed Tiny Tim's gimpy leg so he could jump and run, and Scrooge & Marley became ScratchitInc and got out of the countinghouse business and into venture capital. It financed the conversion of old factories and mills into luxury apartments and reaped fabulous profits, which Mr. Scrooge wanted to give away. "Mankind is our business!" he cried. Mr. Cratchit felt that charity tended to weaken the moral values of the poor. Look at Tiny Tim. He was no longer good as gold. He shaved his head and got a spiderweb tattoo around his neck and spiked his hair and replaced his little crutch with a Fender Stratocaster and started a band, the Humbugs.
Listeners' tastes, both old and new, determine which holiday songs are ...
Everyone has a favorite Christmas song. It might be the version of "Winter Wonderland" that your mom sang along with as she cooked the Thanksgiving turkey; the hymn you look forward to the most at the Christmas Eve service; or the song that makes you cry every year even though you feel chagrin at falling for such blatant sentimentality. Yes, that would be "Little Drummer Boy." .
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