Judith Browning

“Circumstances don’t make the man,
they only reveal him to himself.”

— Epictetus

thanks mk!

and John!
I've considered boron...will see if I can figure the bare minimum  amount to use under the peach trees.  

Broken symmetry is imperfection, but rich in creativity.
The universe is created out of broken symmetry.

Amit Ray
Meditation: Insights and Inspiration (2010)

That kind of deep attention that we pay as children is something that I cherish,
that I think we all can cherish and reclaim,
because attention is that doorway to gratitude, the doorway to wonder,
the doorway to reciprocity.

Robin Wall Kimmerer
Interview on On Being podcast (2022)

thank you Amy and Alder both!

Your ideas make me feel like I'm on the right track at least.

As much as we would love to have chickens again we hesitate because of dogs and raccoons and recent experiences.

I'll clear back even farther from the trunk though and see about getting some neem oil.  I've never used it.

When the song of the angels is stilled,
When the star in the sky is gone,
When the kings and princes are home,
When the shepherds are back with their flocks,
The work of Christmas begins:
To find the lost,
To heal the broken,
To feed the hungry,
To release the prisoner,
To rebuild the nations,
To bring peace among others,
To make music in the heart.

Howard Thurman
(1899 to 1981, philosopher, theologian,
educator, and civil rights leader)

thanks Martin!

I'll see what happens....there are just four and I have probably a few dozen whole ones spending the winter out doors.

I wonder if it was because I kept them in the door to the refrigerator and it was too warm?

I've just decided to keep propagating more trees when we have a good year like this past one and assume their life span is short.

As a possible preventative, I have, just this fall, cleared an area a foot or so from the trunk down to bare dirt and will try to keep it that way...the idea I read was if you could keep the larvae in the soil stirred up they wouldn't make it to the trunk? doubtful but not a lot of effort to do.

It was a great year for peaches in spite of curculio.

I have most pits (that I saved) outdoors in pots although I opened just a few to kernels and put them in some old potting soil in the refrigerator in  july...I just happened to check on them today and they have sprouted!

I think they are a loss as we are just going into winter and I don't have any way to keep them from freezing.

anyone have luck keeping them alive until spring when this happens?  seems way too out of synch with the weather here.

I have always held a notion of a healthy society as one in which the two opposing elements, the conservative and the creative (or radical, or visionary, or whatever term is best applied to the dissident), exist in a mutual balance.
The conservative, with its vested interest in things as they are, holds onto the present, gives stability, and preserves established values (and keeps the banks open).
The visionary, always able to see the configuration of the future in present things, presses for change, experiment, the venture into new ways.
A truly creative artist is inevitably of this part of the society.

ben shahn