Archive for May 17th, 2008

Genuine National Security

“Foreign aid and resource conservation will protect us more than missiles.”
I was digging through some desktop papers and cleaning up my “pile,” as my wife likes to call it, and found this great article that I had copied out of Utne Reader a while back. It is a well written article on National Security that I like. Tell me what you think after you’ve had a read.

“The real key to homeland security, says Amory Lovins, has nothing to do with regime change in Iraq or destroying Al Qaeda. It’s all about using our resources more efficiently.”
Read the Rest of the Article at Utne.com
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Our First Lilac Flowers of 2008

With the past few days in the mid to upper 80’s, everything around the yard that gets a good watering is boosting. Our first lilac flowers are beginning to show. They smell so wonderful! We have a lot of large lilac bushes around our place that are probably over 40 years old. It’s nice to walk around the yard in the early morning when the sun really begins to warm the flowers up. The fragrance is amazing. Too bad our house doesn’t always smell that nice.

Common Lilac

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