FOTD 25th June 2024: Nasturtium | Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss

I found a nasturtium in my garden. I threw a few seeds around a few months ago and they are now growing, but I only have one flower up to now. Actually the seeds should have purple flowers, but it seems they decided to grow orange.

Source: FOTD 25th June 2024: Nasturtium | Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss

Ready To Wake Up, America??? | Filosofa’s Word

Lots of talk about the economy these days, and about women’s rights, the Supreme Court’s corruption, injecting religion into education, and more, but little is said about one topic that can and likely will ultimately make all the rest irrelevant … the environment.  The environment, notably climate change, should be perhaps the single biggest concern for all, but instead it has become a political football that nobody really wants to touch.  Last week, 1,301 human beings died in Saudi Arabia because of the heat.  And before anybody even thinks to say it, no, this is not just a normal temperature variation … this is the result of a century of technology throwing carbon into the atmosphere willy-nilly without a thought for the damage we were (and are still) doing in our search for more ‘stuff’, more conveniences, more, more, more of everything.

Elliot Kirschner does a good job reminding us of the ‘tipping point’ we have reached and what we can do about it … what we MUST do about it …


BOILING POINT

Vote like Earth depends on it

By Elliot Kirschner

25 June 2024

It feels like the ultimate privilege to venture out on a typical chilly, fogbound summer evening in San Francisco and wistfully reach for a sweatshirt, wishing it were a bit warmer. 

Meanwhile, as the news blares and a weekend sojourn 200 miles south affirms, much of the world is boiling. 

Talk about living in a (climatic) bubble…

Source: Ready To Wake Up, America??? | Filosofa’s Word

Even in the Middle Ages, motherwort was a mandatory plant to grow in monastery gardens (because even then it was considered valuable and necessary).

Even in the Middle Ages, motherwort was a mandatory plant to grow in monastery gardens (because even then it was considered valuable and necessary). …

Even in the Middle Ages, motherwort was a mandatory plant to grow in monastery gardens (because even then it was considered valuable and necessary).