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if you have never spent time breathing in an oak leaf…

I would urge you to do so as soon as possible.

It is like the scent of freshly mown grass, aged for a hundred of years until it is clean deep wise warm green.

After a storm the other day I found some large oak leaves on the ground at McCorkle Place. I tucked three into the notebook I carry in my purse, which lately serves more as a receptacle for found leaves and feathers than as a notebook.

I thought it might be interesting to play with some printing using the leaves. When I got home that evening and opened the notebook to retrieve them, the scent of the leaves burst out and overtook me.

Now, when I walk through McCorkle Place, I can pick out the oak smell.

I imagine I will become an inveterate leaf sniffer now.

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I had a nice dinner at my friend’s new house tonight. I took my Vitamix over and made Krank Juice while he whipped up some vegetables we ate with soba.

Now a thunderstorm is rolling in.