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Hi, would you like to talk about plants?

https://ijeomaoluo.substack.com/p/hi-would-you-like-to-talk-about-plants
The more intense my work and this political landscape has gotten, the stronger my urge to run away to the woods forever had become. But, as I said in my recent post, I’m not going anywhere. And when I decided that I wasn’t going anywhere, I also knew that I would then need to make my home more of the type of space I need to maintain some level of peace in my life. So I decided to build a garden.

MAKE | The Making of a Maker: A Tribute to the 1970 Estes Model Rocket Catalog

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/12/the-making-of-a-maker-a-tribute-to-the-1970-estes-model-rocket-catalog.html
In a follow-up to his rocketry reviews in the Make: Ultimate Kit Guide, Stefan Jones sent us this wonderful backstory on how he got involved in hobby rocketry. It really brought back memories for me because I was introduced to model rocketry through the same year’s Estes catalog and had a very similar reaction. I’m sure many makers of our generation had a similar experience. -Gareth