tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post6944771170266892907..comments2024-03-27T07:35:21.832-07:00Comments on Plants are the Strangest People: Pretty picture: Phragmipedium Samuel Crothersmr_subjunctivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14113199755474482747noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-2959899093674474542016-07-11T19:05:22.212-07:002016-07-11T19:05:22.212-07:00Hoover Boo:
I don't see taking comfort in nat...Hoover Boo:<br /><br />I don't see taking comfort in nature as a bad thing, of course. I guess my deal with this post was that I'm really <i>angry</i> about this, about Philando Castile, Alton Sterling, and the many other men and women who have died unjustly and avoidably at the hands of police. And it would be fairly easy for me to calm down and relax about it because it's not likelymr_subjunctivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14113199755474482747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-26947501010796932562016-07-11T18:15:50.463-07:002016-07-11T18:15:50.463-07:00Ivynettle:
Well, America's always been a dyst...Ivynettle:<br /><br />Well, America's always been a dystopia to some degree or another for certain segments of its population: if you're poor, non-white, LGBT, an immigrant (legal or not), non-Protestant, female, mentally ill, disabled, very young, very old, non-speaker of English, etc., things have been pretty bad for your group at one time or another. <br /><br />The good news is that mr_subjunctivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14113199755474482747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-38744781955180854152016-07-11T11:55:06.984-07:002016-07-11T11:55:06.984-07:00I keep thinking about how I can't even imagine...I keep thinking about how I can't even imagine what it must be like living the US. Even just hearing the news from over here, it's terrifying and depressing and it's making me feel so helpless, because there's nothing I can <i>do</i>.I mean, I don't know what I would do if I was there, but there must be something. But from a different country, a different continent?<br /><br /Ivynettlehttp://ivynettle.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-57359367141234720602016-07-10T14:26:30.347-07:002016-07-10T14:26:30.347-07:00It's been bad, yes. But taking comfort in, an...It's been bad, yes. But taking comfort in, and gaining strength from the beauty of nature...how can that be wrong? One must be strong, to take positive action. Hoover Boohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03083294821646284424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-54442349133354669892016-07-09T12:39:24.763-07:002016-07-09T12:39:24.763-07:00And yet that seems like the perfect response.And yet that seems like the perfect response.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00415789135783056260noreply@blogger.com