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An Archaeological Mystery
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- RIP Leonard Nimoy
- Icy Waves off Nantucket
- An Energy Positive House in Australia
- Stuck in the Ice
- Klaus Wäscher, Der Socialismus Siegt
- ISIS and Republican Voters
- An Uplifting Story from Syria
- Masks
- Jacob Collins
- Peeking Inside a Viking Treasure
- Wisdom
- The Well of St. Mary Spital
- Net Neutrality Wins a Round
- Never Trust an Economist
- Montacute House, 1601
- Art, Protest, and War in Syria
- Thanksgiving Chapel, Dallas, by Philip Johnson
- The Rise (?) of Twee
- Wind-Carved Sand
- Fatehpur Beri, India's Village of Bouncers
- Today's Question: Should We Fight for Mosul?
- More snow
- Martin Vegas, Living Stones
- Zero Tolerance for Killing Pedestrians
- Let Us Now Praise Dodd-Frank
- Unryū-in
- Predicting the Future at Gegharot, Armenia, 1300 BCE
- Enough with the Cool Cultural Signalling
- Haruki Murakami's Writing Advice
- God's Constitution and Christian Idolatry
- Basilica of St. Peter, Tuscania
- Christianity and Individualism
- A New Bipartisan Agenda: Justice Reform
- Libya: the Aftermath of Regime Change
- Harald Sohlberg
- David Carr's Syllabus for Press Play
- Apotheon
- Windows, Tossa del Mar, Spain
- Dangerous Parenting
- De-Cluttering and the German Mind
- Hiroshi Sugimoto
- Grave Rabbits
- Islam in the Islamic State
- Another Step Closer to the Six Million Dollar Man
- The Minds of Twelve-Year-Olds
- Endre Penovác, Watercolors
- All I Have to Say about 50 Shades of Gray
- Arquipélago – Contemporary Arts Center by Menos é ...
- New Delhi's Air is Worse than Beijing's; or, Over ...
- Winter Afternoon
- The Loving Couple of Alepotrypa Cave
- Neolithic Cult Sites of the Negev
- Rebecca Law's Flowers
- La Grande Borne
- Black Migrants to Chicago, 1922
- Dolphin Mosaic, Fishbourne Palace, England, 2nd Ce...
- Andrew Keen Worries about the Internet
- The Genes of 69 Ancient Europeans
- Barack Obama and Maureen Dowd
- George Steinmetz, Ghadames, Libya
- Religious Hatred or Parking Hatred?
- The Curious Case of John Lambe and George Villiers
- Better Late than Never
- Ergot in Amber
- Nok Head from Pangwari, Nigeria
- Our Jails are a Disgrace
- Civil War Tent Life
- Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel
- The Obama Doctrine
- Tawny Frogmouths, Australia
- A Warm Day in Winter
- Capitalism and Democracy, in China and Other Places
- From the Corcoran to the National Gallery
- Islamic History at Gallipoli
- The Leicester Mystery Stone
- Scott Walker and the Mission Statement
- Ice Halos, New Mexico
- The Problem with Believing the World is Just
- The Perils of Thinking for Yourself
- Andrew Sullivan Remembers the War
- Medical Advice from 1697
- Patterns in the Earth
- The Power of Quiet Bureaucratic Competence
- T.S. Elliott, Little Gidding
- Death in Childbirth, 5700 BCE
- Failed Weapons: the Grand Panjandrum
- Belligerent Ignorance
- Elm Bark
- Serat Selarasa: Indonesian Art of the Nineteenth C...
- The Burden of Secularism
- The Power of the Ring
- Mule Deer Abductions
- Precision Medicine is Hooey
- Rod Dreher, The Little Way of Ruthie Lemming
- Winter Solstice in Ancient Texas
- Seeing God in Science (or Not)
- Andrea Dezsö, Illustrations for the Brothers Grimm
- Salvation in Life
- Islam and Violence
- Celtic Bronze Bull, c. 200 BCE
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- John Bedell is an archaeologist, historian, and father of five living in Maryland. He has self-published two novels and is writing a third.
2 comments:
I've always found cut flowers to be astonishly morbid, and it baffles me to no end that so few others share this view. "They're so pretty!" is the typical gist of the responses I get, and most people can't understand why I can agree to the beauty of living flowers but not agree to the beauty of dying ones.
Can you imagine if we celebrated Easter by bringing home rabbit and bird corpses to hang around the house? After all, they're symbols of life just like flowers are, and there's definitely great beauty in furs and feathers. Yet somehow most people find dead and dying animals to not be very "cheery", even while simultaneously finding dead and dying flowers to be extremely so.
Flowers as a gift is fine - just leave them growing in a pot instead of cutting them to be thrown into the trash heap when they start to decompose.
Grouch!
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