Comments on: Nature’s Chinese Stars http://www.dougfine.com/2007/11/02/natures-chinese-stars/ Personal website of author Doug Fine Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:10:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: christy http://www.dougfine.com/2007/11/02/natures-chinese-stars/#comment-404 christy Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:04:24 +0000 http://www.dougfine.com/2007/11/02/natures-chinese-stars/#comment-404 So funny! Like burrs we have in KY in the summer? These sounds MUCH worse though. I guess everything is harsher in the desert. I was just running/jogging/hiking through my own private wilderness here is St. Louis Co. (soon to be developed, much to my chagrin) and thinking how grateful I was for the first killing freeze that ends deer tick season. Next year there will be a subdivision. So sad, and yet *I* live in a subdivision too. So funny!

Like burrs we have in KY in the summer? These sounds MUCH worse though. I guess everything is harsher in the desert.

I was just running/jogging/hiking through my own private wilderness here is St. Louis Co. (soon to be developed, much to my chagrin) and thinking how grateful I was for the first killing freeze that ends deer tick season.

Next year there will be a subdivision. So sad, and yet *I* live in a subdivision too.

]]> By: OrgoCowboy http://www.dougfine.com/2007/11/02/natures-chinese-stars/#comment-417 OrgoCowboy Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:29:09 +0000 http://www.dougfine.com/2007/11/02/natures-chinese-stars/#comment-417 OK. Change starts today. That's it. As if I decide. Or maybe I do. Maybe each of us does. OK. Change starts today. That’s it. As if I decide. Or maybe I do. Maybe each of us does.

]]> By: christy http://www.dougfine.com/2007/11/02/natures-chinese-stars/#comment-419 christy Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:39:50 +0000 http://www.dougfine.com/2007/11/02/natures-chinese-stars/#comment-419 I wonder when the paradigm will shift (I'm cringing having written that!!!) among the other soccer mommies--the conspicuous consumerism and all that that entails. It is hard with kids. You don't want them to be ostracized, or you hope they'll be strong enough to get the good lesson from that. I fight with my husband NOT to put chemicals on our lawn, for example. I am trying not to think the smell of chemical cleaning agents equals clean (from conditioning as a child, I guess). I know attitudes change, I just wonder what forces make it "cool" enough to stir masses that are afraid to deviate. Sorry, rambling. Yes. Change is starting. It's all good. I wonder when the paradigm will shift (I’m cringing having written that!!!) among the other soccer mommies–the conspicuous consumerism and all that that entails. It is hard with kids. You don’t want them to be ostracized, or you hope they’ll be strong enough to get the good lesson from that.

I fight with my husband NOT to put chemicals on our lawn, for example. I am trying not to think the smell of chemical cleaning agents equals clean (from conditioning as a child, I guess).

I know attitudes change, I just wonder what forces make it “cool” enough to stir masses that are afraid to deviate.

Sorry, rambling. Yes. Change is starting. It’s all good.

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