Posted on February 24, 2008 by bookseedstudio
CANINES with COURT GUARDIANS
Once I read a short story by Marjory Stoneman Douglas about a dog fight, which she set in a dank place outside Miami.
The character, Agnes, a Latin teacher and humane society volunteer, rushes away into the night from a party when she receives a tip about the fight. Dressed in a black satin evening gown, she sneaks up on the action [...]
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Posted on February 18, 2008 by bookseedstudio
MAYA the OWL
The little owl ended up on a roadway in need of help.
She was picked up by a tourist and handed along until she found her way to one wildlife sanctuary for immediate care and then, another for continued help. She had been somehow injured and unable to return to a wild life.
Before long, the owl, [...]
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Posted on February 15, 2008 by bookseedstudio
A BABY in the WATER
Imagine you are a long-distance swimmer, in California.
In training, you swim way out in the Pacific Ocean, beyond wave breaks. You realize you are not alone.
GRAYSON is the other-worldly story marathon swimmer Lynne Cox wrote, inspired by her experience in the water, when she discovered that her steady path through the ocean now attracted the attention of a [...]
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Posted on February 10, 2008 by bookseedstudio
CONVERSATIONS between CATS
This is short and sweet.
http://tubeclan.com/category/animals/cats/
~ quite purr-fect don’t you think? ~
Tubeclan is a new feature from The Buckmans, operators of bookmooch.com
At Tubeclan,
categories of fun, sweet, enlightening, silly, comedic, musical & otherwise worth-the-time YouTube videos are captured for your pleasure, making it easy to get the best of YouTube without looking at the dregs.
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Posted on February 6, 2008 by bookseedstudio
A CATHOLIC CAPUCHIN CAPER
Thank the Franciscan order for its naming of the Capuchin friars.
The friars lent that name to a monkey, supposedly for the resemblance.
This connection escapes me but then after eerie, hungry nights out of place in the South American jungle, perhaps the friars, encountering skinny monkeys, fancied there was a resemblance?
Capuchins are involved in a national program of providing [...]
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Posted on February 3, 2008 by bookseedstudio
A CLEAR MOON and the HEDGEHOG
The school tradition of thinking a groundhog forecast the weather each February didn’t enfold a whisker of wisdom about the European hedgehog.
A yarn at a hedgehog site in British Columbia, Canada, spins the story that Romans decided that if a hedgehog, from its den, saw a shadow at this time of year, the hedgehog knew it was [...]
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