Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Saturday, August 17, 2019
You’re fixing to lose the bananas in your breakfast cereal.
And banana pudding will become only a sweet memory.
Grocery stores may no longer be selling bananas.
Why?
The global crop is dying, and will soon be dead.
Global as in worldwide.
Dead as in extinct.
Extinct as the Dodo bird.
Which, by the way, is thought to have become extinct c.1690 – a very long time ago. So naturally, there are no photographs of the Dodo bird, since the development of photography (yes, it’s a bad pun) was begun c.1826 with the image entitled “View from the Window at Le Gras,” which was made by Nicéphore Niépce, a French inventor in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, France.
A harmful soil fungus, for which there is no known remedy, has begun to affect banana crops worldwide. Found in Taiwan in the 1990’s, the fungus, which resides naturally in the soil, is a variant of Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Outwitted
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He drew a circle that shut me out–
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Heretic, a rebel, a thing to flout.
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But Love and I had the wit to win:
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We drew a circle that took him in!
by Edwin Markham, April 23, 1852 – March 7, 1940
That brief poem, or epigram, by Edwin Markham summarizes succinctly the idea upon which I will expound in this entry.
In the past several days, it came to light that a Shoals area Alabama entrepreneur, Garrett Shirey – who, with his brothers Reese & Austin, are founders and co-owners of Shirey Ice Cream in the northwest Alabama town of Florence, population 39,447 – had Tweeted at least two uncharacteristic and very unbecoming messages. The specific dates and times they were made, and the content can be seen in the screen shot images of the Tweets, both which appear later in this entry.
First, some background.
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