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As for my garden, I’ve read that there are inedible types of purslane as well as nutritious varieties. Ancient gatherers identified edible plants through trial and error. We get most of our information from books or online media. Much of my early experience was lost for years to brain injury so I read neuroscience. Sometimes I ask the universe, should I keep writing about this stuff?
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I wrote and discarded an entire column this month about how Orthodox Christians are conflicted about praying for Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow. Kirill sides with Putin and many Orthodox Christians are being killed and injured by Putin’s violence. Kirill and Putin see the west as decadent, which is code for weak: code for “feminine.”
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