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• BLOG — My hero

  By Lauren ShowsDecember 31, 2016

  

  After the passing of the actor Carrie Fisher, I’ve been feeling guilty about a blog I wrote last year.

• BLOG-Pass It On

  By Amy MagnusDecember 25, 2016

  

  It only takes a spark.

• BLOG-Favorite Things

  By Amy MagnusDecember 18, 2016

  

  We celebrate winter’s sparkling string of holidays.

• Yarn Registry BLOG: A Landfill is an Ecosystem Unto Itself, part VI

  By Dylan Taylor-LehmanDecember 16, 2016

  

  These changes will happen at evolution’s grindingly slow pace, but by the time these creatures have gotten used to life in vast ecosystems of garbage, a future researcher will marvel at how readily and how ingeniously these creatures have adapted — and continue to adapt — to their befouled environs.

• BLOG-Festival and Forest

  By Amy MagnusDecember 11, 2016

  

  My husband woke me up to the news that we had a blanket of white snow on the ground. “Here is the plan.” he told me. This morning we get our tree.

• Yarn Registry BLOG: A Landfill is an Ecosystem Unto Itself, part V

  By Dylan Taylor-LehmanDecember 9, 2016

  

  This week’s entry discusses the myriad mammals that are able to live in a landfill, from small rodents to upper-echelon predators to human beings. But this is a Pyrrhic victory, as they are subject to the same hazards that afflict any creature searching its way through a dump.

• BLOG— Infinite cathedral

  By Audrey HackettDecember 6, 2016

  

  There’s no problem the wind and rain can’t solve, even the November wind and rain. The wind and rain can’t name the problem, can’t diagnose it, can’t prescribe, yet they can, shall we say, dissolve it.

• BLOG-In Harmony

  By Amy MagnusDecember 4, 2016

  

  We walk many paths but we can achieve much together. Imagine voices raised… not in anger but in song…and never despair.

• Yarn Registry BLOG: A Landfill is an Ecosystem Unto Itself, part IV

  By Dylan Taylor-LehmanDecember 2, 2016

  

  Many bird species that call the Rumpke grasslands home: birdsong mixes with the rattle and hum of machinery to create a cyborg symphony that represents the in/organic mix that is the landfill itself.

• BLOG— Get brave and speak

  By Audrey HackettNovember 22, 2016

  

  Trembling in my car as I was ordered to leave the Speedway campus on the night after an upsetting, disorienting and momentous election, I realized: I am afraid, so afraid, to speak up, not just to the man in the fluorescent vest, but really to anyone who may not like what I have to say.