Category: language

A garden, said the British horticulturist Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932), who designed one of the gardens in our top 25, “teaches entire trust.”

25 Gardens. NYTimes

The 25 Gardens You Must See

We asked six horticultural experts to debate and ultimately choose the places that’ve changed the way we look at — and think about — plants.
1. Sissinghurst Castle Garden in Cranbrook, England
2. Great Dixter House & Gardens in Northiam, England
3. Giardino di Ninfa in Cisterna di Latina, Italy
7. Royal Botanic Garden Sydney in Sydney, Australia
8. The High Line in New York City
21. Villa d’Este in Tivoli, Italy
23. Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte in Maincy, France
25. Edward James Sculpture Garden, Las Pozas, in Xilitla, Mexico

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the throat
ache

to call
makes

the heart
cheer

the ear
keen

to the sheer
glorious

windfall
…

first green flare, Sidney Wade

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I never understood this eagerness to woo authority figures. (AA)

Tecomaria capensis (Thunb.) Spach – Determined By: B. F. Hansen, Mar 2023. 23 Apr 1997 Plant Atlas Citation

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the privilege to be unbounded

On my walks, my eyes were sharper, hungrier—discerning the world (AA)

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What Green Card Holders Should Know in Preparing to Travel Outside the U.S. (NYTimes)

border checkpoints have enacted what the White House refers to as “advanced vetting.” The measures, which include detaining and deporting tourists, have led allied countries, like Germany, to update travel advisories for their citizens about traveling to the United States

The Department of Homeland Security in April announced that it would screen immigrants’ social media for evidence of antisemitism, which it said would be grounds for “denying immigration benefit requests.” The screen looks for evidence of “endorsing, espousing, promoting, or supporting antisemitic terrorism,” according to the statement.

[…]

Mr. Wildes also recommended that green card holders who travel frequently apply for Global Entry, a C.B.P. program that expedites the clearance process when entering the United States.

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All I ever wanted was Bird’s game, 
quietly telling opponents the spot on the floor where he
would
rise, after a screen and two dribbles, in the corner like a
yellow
sun and let the ball fly. I’m always writing to you 
to remind myself that all love poems are about the future. 
Under the bright lights of this metaphor, I’m digging deep,
not
vanishing when it matters most, to find the heart to take a
shot
when the clock winds down to nothing.

Bird, Tomás Q. Morín

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Artists Space. Poetry Pending Revolution: A Reading and Discussion with Commune Editions, 2016.

“…remember
you can have what you ask for, ask for
everything”

Red Epic, Joshua Clover

A FIERY FLYING ROULE. Book.