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Black pine – One Square Foot – 13 in a series

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New Design: New Design: Bougainvillea Flower Pattern [For Sale]

A photo of mine transformed into an illustration and abstract version of Bougainvillea flowers.

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Paperwhites and more – One Square Foot – 12 in a series

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Historical Cooking Books – 84 in a series – 30 good recipes for using Eiffel Tower Bun Flour (1880)

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HOME BAKING SIMPLIFIED.

Eiffel Tower Bun Flour is a real help to the housewife, to the experienced cook, or to the expert chef. From the making of the plainest buns, cakes, or pastry for the most modest household to the making of the richest varieties for the banquet it is invaluable and equally successful.

Eiffel Tower Bun Flour is entirely distinct from any other preparation. There is an ease and certainty in its use which has made it famous among lovers of dainty buns, digestible home¬ made cakes, and light pastry. Try a packet at once.

Home-made buns, cakes and pastries made with Eiffel Tower Bun Flour have a daintiness and sweetness which is quite distinct from those made any other way.

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Publication date 1880

Topics Cooking, Flour, Food Industry, Advertising as Topic, Great Britain

Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]

Collection wellcomelibrary; ukmhl; medicalheritagelibrary; europeanlibraries

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Contributor Wellcome Library

Language English

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New Design: Vintage Textile Fragment from the Cooper Hewitt [For Sale]

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Wind Chime – One Square Foot – 11 in a series

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New Design: Dilleniaceæ Family from Illustrations of the natural orders of plants (1868) [For Sale]

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Sickle-thorn fern – One Square Foot – 10 in a series

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I never imagined when I started this series, that I would be ever writing about the horrors we have experienced as a nation in the last week.

The Constitution clearly states, “We the PEOPLE of the United States of America…”.

This all changed on January 6, 2021. On this day, a certain amount of our citizens decided that rather than continue our nation and government as it has been for 245 years, they would raise arms against their nation and their fellow citizens in an attempt to overthrow it.

A “Rubicon” was crossed that day. 

All of us realized that there are those among us who are not working FOR our society, but rather, AGAINST it. They broke with the basic tenets of society which says that we work together, peacefully — we establish norms and laws, collectively — for the benefit of all citizens. They decided that their rules, their norms, outweighed everyone else in our society and our nation. They raised arms directly against their government and their fellow citizens. I hope that we can all see this as wrong and the antithesis of the society we have tried to create.

Some have tried to establish an equivalency between the summer’s protests against racism and the inequitable application of justice. There is none. Attempting insurrection far outweighs anything we have seen. There can and should be no comparison.

Only one group of people tried to overthrow the government last week. They proudly committed their sedition in public, recording their plans and their actions. They cannot deny it and we cannot deny who they were. WE cannot deflect. We cannot lie about who they were. They showed us exactly who they were through their own voices and actions.

These people assaulted our collective society, attempting its overthrow, while simultaneously wanting to enjoy the benefits of our society, but society and civilization require us all to agree, collectively, on some very basic tenets. To abandon those is to abandon society and civilization.

A civilized society demands that we stand together against those who would seek to destroy it. If we do not we will lose our society, our civilization, and perhaps even our lives.

So, just what is “civics” anyway?

Civics is defined as: the study or science of the privileges and obligations of citizens.

Civic education is the study of the theoretical, political and practical aspects of citizenship, as well as its rights and duties. It includes the study of civil law and civil code, and the study of government with attention to the role of citizens―as opposed to external factors―in the operation and oversight of government. — League of Women Voters of Delaware.

In order to have the government we want, we need to both understand and engage in civics activities in our local communities. I am dedicated to doing better in 2021. How about you?