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Keeping the (inner) peace
Good Earthkeeping, by Tasha Halpert – As a child I always wanted to keep the peace. Growing up in a combative household (with parents and siblings who often wrangled and shouted) that wasn’t easy. In...
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Another fruit of summer
Good Earthkeeping, by Tasha Halpert – My parents both gardened, but differently. My mother had a vegetable garden; my father grew flowers. She spent her summers growing, harvesting, and putting up what...
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Delicious nutritious recycling
Good Earthkeeping, by Tasha Halpert – I can’t help it. I save too much. Periodically I have to prune away the overage and find a home for it if I can. I get my saving instincts from both sides of my...
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Time is a strange accordion
Good Earthkeeping, by Tasha Halpert – When I was a child, school and playtime defined my days. My years were divided into summer and other vacations, weeks by weekends and school. My clothing was...
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A penny is more than a penny
Good Earthkeeping, by Tasha Halpert – My grandmother grew up in a time when a penny, not to mention a dollar, was worth considerably more than it is today. She also grew up in an era when there were...
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Mathematical assumptions are deceiving
Good Earthkeeping, by Tasha Halpert – I was fortunate to be able to go to a small private school located in an old mansion with lovely grounds. I had gone to the kindergarten in a small, separate...
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A mother and daughter’s saving nature
Good Earthkeeping, by Tasha Halpert – As far as I remember my dad wasn’t one to save things, quite the contrary. He was much more inclined to throw things out. On the other hand, I have a tendency to...
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Acceptance of what is can be learned
Good Earthkeeping, by Tasha Halpert – I began at an early age to learn my role as a would be peacemaker. My parents were both very special and wonderful people, yet they had a lot of differences and...
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Summer through the years
Good Earthkeeping, by Tasha Halpert – As a child I looked forward to school vacation and the freedom it brought from discipline, homework and schedules. Whenever weather permitted, my time was spent...
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Goodness of the local harvest
Good Earthkeeping, by Tasha Halpert – My mother grew vegetables and fruit and canned them for use during the winter and spring. I remember her on the hot days in August and September, lifting the glass...
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Driving through the past to the future
Good Earthkeeping, by Tasha Halpert – Children have little to no sense of the future, and they don’t have much of a past to remember. They live mainly in the present moment and that is why they might...
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An unanticipated adventure
Good Earthkeeping, by Tasha Halpert – Growing up I preferred tales of adventure to almost any other kind of book except fairy stories. Biographies bored me as did many of the titles on the summer...
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