The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

by Margaret Renkl

beneficial insects like ladybugs, lacewings, and parasitic wasps spend winter in the hollow stems of old flowers.

I can’t change Americans’ love affair with poison, and I can’t solve the problems of climate change, but I can plant a garden.

I see what I can see. I have no way of knowing what I cannot see. The world is

sometimes the only cure for homesickness is to enlarge the definition of home.