Author: Tim
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Post #6 – Planting Season
Depending on the availability of trees left over from the VM Land Trust sale, there will be one more planting session and maybe ten more conifers to plant this winter. This year I shared my sale seedlings (I think seedling is the right word for these bare-root trees that have grown to one to two Read more
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Post #5 – Let’s All Sing?
I have come to temper my enthusiasm for singing. Not as a personal practice – I still consider it a great gift of my life – but as a universal prescription. While I agree with Pete Seeger that singing together could heal the world, I recognize that there are many other things – well-intentioned dialogue Read more
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Post #4 – A New Page
Regular visitors to this web page (which is to say: no one) will notice that an option has been added to the home page menu: Forestry. That link (and this link) will take you to a short essay about work I have been doing over the last 12 years in a small, out of the Read more
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Post #3 – Re-restarting
26 months later, I recommit to a public-facing writing practice. Public-facing in only the technical meaning of the word “public”, because this is an entirely unnoticed corner of the internet (prove me wrong! – <ukuleleseed@gmail.com>). In reaching for an analogy, I thought about a time, walking through a park and desperate to pee, I found Read more
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Post #2 – Ukulele Crack
There are certain simple things that a person picking up a ukulele for the first time can be taught that might get them addicted. For example: learning the C, Cmaj7, and C7 chords (each requires one finger only!); strumming them in succession; and then seeing how they can accompany the first bars of Raindrops Keep Read more
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Post #1 – Restarting
I started this web site two years ago using the WIX website host+editor. I had grand designs, which did not materialize. To save money and to conform to lower expectations, I found a less expensive host and rebuilt a simpler version of the web site. I may import some or parts of the few of Read more