This makes total sense.

It's okay, I can love the weirdo maroon snapdragon.

among others,

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We plant and love them, anyway. I'd like to think that we too, can sometimes be different and deeply imperfect. We may be sick. Perhaps we're weird in our suffering. and yet, we can remain beautiful. Highly value-able, deeply loved.

...in so many words, they're less pretty. How lucky it is, that beauty is the eyes of the beholder. To me and to the people planning our parks, chestnuts are clearly beautiful. They're just different. They don't do autumn or summer like other trees, and since they're trees, they can't help it.

but let us not turn sad for the lovely chestnut, not yet. As far as scientists report[1], it seems like the trees are holding up sorta fine. They have plenty of time to make it, each year, before the disease hits. The loss is their "aesthetic value", write the experts....

it is. Horse chestnuts in Austria and all over Europe are infected by a moth, named for the deed: the horse-chestnut leaf miner or Cameraria ohridella. The offspring are born within the chestnut leaves and feed on them, eventually causing leaf death. No remedy had been found.

There's a hint in the leaf's appearance: from up close, it seems different. Leaf senescence has a certain color gradient, sometimes starting at the tips, or at the midribs and veins. Instead, our chestnuts have spots - it almost looks like a fashionable mosaic. Like somebody's works. So, actually -

Standing in the streets and parks, they're already a deep golden brown and shedding heavily at the end of summer. a botanist may tell you that sadly, they're not autumn marathoners: they're just sick. (and I, too, happen to be one).

בשלב מסוים קיבלתי את זה שכל הפוליטיקה האמריקאית היא הטרלה אחת גדולה.

I used to be friends with a person like that, and 'used to' for obvious reasons. Last I heard, he married very conservative, meaning to someone who is very unlikely to leave or have opinion. He had children and went very right-wing. That seems to be the trope 🤷‍♀️

Absolutely agree, but also, people of a gentler disposition just reduce or stop using Facebook. It's a very unpleasant space, and unsurprisingly this is the sort of crowd that persists.
I personally believe it's not a good representation of humanity at all.

Thank you, I sent an e-mail.

We had no resolution from costumer support (outsourced to @aptara.bsky.social), no replies from Author Support on phone on or e-mail, and no way to reach production.
I hate to do this, but we're stuck and don't know who else to turn to.

I love this. My partner suffers from a sun allergy and it's as bad as it sounds - any level of sun exposure causes allergic reaction. It's very hot.
He feels great in kaftans, but says the public reactions make it not worth it. Other than develop a thick skin (pun int), what are the options?

That's precisely what they think, and I'm not sure they're wrong...

אני מתה על רכבות והדבקתי את בן הזוג.
בפברואר נסעתי ברכבות מוינה עד דרום איטליה, לקח לי כ-יום וחצי עם עצירה לקפה ומאפה ברומא ונהניתי מאוד מאוד.
בקיץ הקרוב ניסע מוינה להמבורג, ואז נמשיך ברכבת לדנמרק וניסע באופניים עד קופנהגן. אני מתרגשת!

צ'כיה כה יפה עם תשתית נוחה ולגמרי
underrated.
איזור מורביה ובוהמיה יפים נוחים ולא יקרים.