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Keyhole garden
Is your backyard too hot and dry to cultivate the vegetables you have only dreamed of? Keyhole gardens were developed for the sole purpose of maximum crop output in the hottest and driest of conditions. Their low cost, low maintenance, and versatility make them a desirable gardening option for your yard and for gardening across the globe.
Humanitarian foundations spearheaded the development of keyhole gardening to help improve lives around the world. Keyhole gardening is simple enough to be taught to school-age children in third-world countries where the children then use the concept in their homes and villages. A single keyhole garden affords enough abundance to provide a large family with a year round supply of vegetables.
Keyhole gardens are circular raised bed gardens. The larger outer circles are where crops are planted. The center portion of these gardens are active composting baskets. Small aisles are built to access the compost baskets. Keyhole gardens get their name from the bird’s eye view of these features.
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The Weighing the Heart Ceremony
Anubis weighing the heart of the deceased, detail from the anthropoid sarcophagus of Pensenhor, a Libyan who settled in Egypt. Third Intermediate Period, 22nd Dynasty, ca. 945-720 BC. Now in the British Museum. EA 24906
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Sculpture by Ateliers d'Art Fred Fichet Sculpture et Dessin Nouméa
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On this day, 22 December 1989, Irish novelist, poet, playwright and French resistance activist Samuel Beckett died in Paris aged 83. A French resident during the Nazi takeover, he joined the resistance and worked as a courier, on several occasions nearly being caught by the Gestapo.
After his unit was betrayed in 1942, he and his companion Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil had to flee to the south of the country, where he continued to assist Maquis fighters, among other things by storing weapons at his home.
He was awarded the Médaille de la Résistance and the Croix de guerre by the French government, but only rarely mentioned his resistance activities, referring to them as “boy scout stuff”. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1299951703523310/?type=3
