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Ben Singleton

@Singletonb

Cocktail-shakin’, garden-diggin’, book-readin’, copy-writin', content-creatin', coffee-fueled PR Guy, Bon Vivant & former Soldier. Sees clouds-imagines things.

 NKY/Greater Cincinnati
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Joined January 2009
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May your day be filled with a second breakfast, good books, a clean handkerchief, and perhaps, a wee bit of adventure. Happy #HobbitDay!
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South Korea’s Disease Control and Prevention Agency said Tuesday that it had recorded at least two cases of the new coronavirus delta plus variant, which some experts believe to be more transmissible than the original delta variant. wapo.st/3jn5C64
Here’s what we know about the delta-plus variant

Here’s what we know about the delta-plus variant

South Korea has detected its first two cases of a virus variant known as "delta plus." Health officials are on alert.

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Sure, it's listed as an invasive, but this Rosa multiflora in my border is just so dang beautiful. #gardening #GardeningTwitter
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Do you have your tomatoes planted yet? We're always tempted to get our hands in the dirt! #gardening #GardeningTwitter #tomatoes nestofsquirrels.com/2019/05/…
Spring Fever or (Im)patience is a Virtue

Spring Fever or (Im)patience is a Virtue

“Visions of ripening tomatoes burrow into my brain…”

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For all you #ToriAmos fans! theguardian.com/music/2021/m… #Music #MusicHeals #MusicMatters @neilhimself
Want 2 inspire future generations 2 solve unsolvable riddles, outwit dragons, & undertake great quests? Read your kids #FairyTales. Neil Gaiman says: “Fairy tales R more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
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So this is cool: Ursula K. Le Guin Stamp Getting Released by the US Postal Service openculture.com/2021/01/ursu… via @openculture #USPS #philately

Ursula K. Le Guin Stamp Getting Released by the US Postal Service

Here's one thing that's going right with America's decaying postal system. They write on the USPS web site: 'The 33rd stamp in the Literary Arts series honors Ursula K.

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If folks from Indiana are Hoosiers, and Ohio folks are Buckeyes, what are we Kentuckians? #NationalKentuckyDay #KentuckKicksAss #Kentucky
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One of our favorites from the tomato patch this year. Honey Delight is both delicious and prolific. A perfect two-bite snack 🙂#Gardening #GrowYourOwn #gardeners @BurpeeGardening
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This Charentais melon is almost ready (I think) providing I can beat the squirrels to it once it's ripe. This french cantaloupe only grows to the size of a softball. And is delicious! #InMyGarden #GrowYourOwnFood #gardenlife #GardenChat
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When a restaurant has the $1 an oyster special, I always think: "How close are these to going bad?' But I also think: "Yeehaw, dollar oysters!" #NationalOysterDay
Oyster on the half shell

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The first ripe tomato in the garden. Hello, my beauty! Variety: Honey Delight #GrowYourOwn #gardening #gardenlife
Honey Delight Tomato on the vine

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The beauty of small things. (Although these peonies are ginormous!) #Gardening #Peonies
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Things to be thankful for: Spring Days & Cherry Blossoms. And a happy birthday to Naturalist #JohnMuir who said: "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul." JohnMuir #EarthDay2020 #EarthDay
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Hello, Beautiful! The first spear sallies forth from in the asparagus patch! #gardening #growyourown #garden
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May Apples making their annual appearance, steadfast and true. As E.B. White wrote: " Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time. I shall get up on Sunday morning and wind the clock, as contribution to order and steadfastness." #nature #Spring #Optimism
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Check out 'The Beekeeper of Aleppo,' an amazing novel that traces the path of a pair of Syrian refugees. Telling truths through fiction. #GoodRead @npr @neilhimself npr.org/2020/04/16/835950317…

'The Beekeeper Of Aleppo' Wins 2020 Aspen Words Literary Prize

Christy Lefteri's novel of the Syrian refugee crisis won the third annual award, which doles out $35,000 for fiction that illuminates a pressing social issue.

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Peas emerging! Little shoots of hope springing up from the chilly earth. #NationalGardeningDay #gardening #gardeningisnotcancelled
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The #USPostalService has been a needed lifeline during #COVID19: Letters from kids 2 grandparents, postcards 2 friends, packets of love & encouragement. Plus any soldier can tell U the importance of a letter from home. Tell Congress to #SaveUSPS RT
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Wisdom from Mary Oliver: "Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it." #spring #gardening
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