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Chartreuse Comfort

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I'm writing this post tonight because I had one of those moments. Lame that I put that in italics, but there's no way to connotate tone otherwise.  Cross-legged atop a chartreuse-clad three-seater couch with ornate wood detailing, complemented by two armchairs circled around an equally ornate yet rim-stained coffee table.  Pause writing. Gianmarco has to "show me something amazing." Resume writing. "Something amazing" was this , but just the remake or tribute part. Good tunes, though. If I can find the music video that showed the band, I'll update this link. Enjoy that tidbit.  We have a fire roaring (that I made, not to toot my own horn, but I'm getting the hang of doing it regularly), I'm sporting a ratty sweatshirt with "Vieques" in white block across the front, a bottle of Montepulciano open and decanted in a vase with toucans and hibiscus dancing across it's width. In it's blackened metal box, the fireplace matches the colo...

Academic Paper: Sapiens in the Swamp: Culture and Landscape in the Everglades Region

From miles of wet grasslands to thick mangrove swamps, the Everglades was an expanse of biodiversity prior to major development interest in the early 1900s. Originally covering over 4,000 square miles, the Everglades encompassed habitats ranging from dense, hot, and dry pine flatwoods to miles of open grasslands to endless tangles of mangrove forests. It was here, within the daunting swamp of the Southwest region of the Everglades, where Seminole, gladespeople, freed or escaped African-American slaves, white European settlers, outlaws, moonshiners, rum- and whiskey-runners all inhabited, adapted, and recreated the natural landscape, it's impossible habitats becoming intangibly ingrained in the establishment and identity of these various peoples. As the “politics of nature” altered the use and perception of the Everglades, these cultures have changed or disappeared, forcibly adapting to a reconfiguration and regulation of the natural landscape forcing a redefinition of their forme...