A wonderful thing happened shortly before Christmas: one of my jade plants came into bloom! I didn't even know jade could bloom, and in an entire lifetime of keeping jaded as house plants, this is the first I've seen bloom.
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In praise of winter nights
With winter days short, although lengthening at last, it is easy to lament the loss of longer, warmer summer days, and yet, each day as I am about to curse the dying of the light, I look to the sky and see such scenes of beauty that it is hard to deny the magnificence of winter.
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