MINUTIAE of Daily Life

When moral outrage leads to moral injury

Yes, it's a thing.

Sep 12 • 

Ailsa Francis

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Last sip

Yesterday I saw a chickadee sitting on the edge of my stone birdbath, still.

Sep 1 • 

Ailsa Francis

3

August 2025

Spectacle and death at Rome's Colosseum.

Does anything really change?

Aug 3 • 

Ailsa Francis

4

2

February 2025

Part I: She's starting to give me knowing and intelligent looks

The gift of evidence that my Dad had a human side

Feb 19 • 

Ailsa Francis

1

August 2023

A garden is not forever...

Because every garden reflects those who have loved it and when they are gone, likely so is the garden

Aug 11, 2023 • 

Ailsa Francis

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2

July 2023

Can you integrate overgrown plants into a new garden design?

I say yes...

Jul 23, 2023 • 

Ailsa Francis

February 2023

Attention Houseplant Black Thumbs!

I'm here for you.

Feb 22, 2023 • 

Ailsa Francis

1

2

Life in death

Yes, there is beauty and new life in destruction and decay

Feb 21, 2023 • 

Ailsa Francis

1

0:25

January 2023

Knossos - Minoan history or mythic theatre?

Part I: Was today's Knossos fashioned from flights of fancy or rigorous archaeology?

Jan 21, 2023 • 

Ailsa Francis

2

Time and making the most of it

I'm not talking a new watch or organizing your cutlery drawer

Jan 5, 2023 • 

Ailsa Francis

2

December 2022

Water - a gateway to magic

It wasn't always that way.

Dec 29, 2022 • 

Ailsa Francis

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2

Do stories and films shape little girls' dreams?

How female protagonists and points of view are so formative to us as we grow...

Dec 4, 2022 • 

Ailsa Francis

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