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28 Jul, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Our neighbours keep bees. Yet, they do not have a single flower in their yard. They chemically kill the dandelions and clover. They mow their lawn every day. I have no idea WTF they think they are doing. 1/
They mow their lawn, daily, in this dry heat and you can see their topsoil rising in a plume behind the mower. 2/
Lucky for them, we have multitudes of dandelions in the spring, and an abundance of clover through the summer. Also flowers and flowering shrubs and fruit trees. 3/
Should I be asking for a cut of the honey?
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We are having a moment in history. A Pandemic. Economies are crashing. People are rethinking what their life means to them. What work means to them.

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I was sorting some papers this morning and I came across some typed copies of letters that were sent between family members back in the 1870s and 1880s. A member of the family had left home in Ontario, determined he was going to make his fortune in California, and vanished.
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It's a difficult thing to understand for normal, rational people who expect things to be a certain way. Let's take newspapers as an example. We expect newspapers to be devoted to giving the public an unbalanced account of the events of the day. 1/20
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