Readers of the Citizen have gifted us with a cloudburst of generosity, and we are grateful for the healing waters in this desert land. This year was great for lambsquarters, but the rains also decked our roads with the ever-present yellow hawkbeard sunflowers, the pale orange globemallow, and the strikingly beautiful filamented flowers of the rocky mountain bee plant. The grasses too have benefited, the towering beardgrass, with its bent, drooping white fluffs, the quivering sideoats grama, brome, fescue, and feather-finger grass. We hope for a bountiful year.
As of yesterday, 38 readers donated over $3,300. Thank you. We will be able to operate into Summer of next year on that, given several pledged monthly donations. We hope more people will join to support the Citizen since its cost will be around $6,000 for the full year.
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Since the Citizen is about communication, I thought you may be interested in a recent scientific discovery that through packets of messenger ribonucleic acid molecules (mRNA, the basis of the Covid vaccine we take) every form of life from single cells to multiple cell organisms communicate with each other, affecting their behavior. See Cells Across the Tree of Life Exchange ‘Text Messages’ Using RNA | Quanta Magazine. The discovery is reminiscent of a book that was very popular in Germany a few years ago where a forester describes how trees communicate with each other through mushrooms living in their roots. Life is a bit more complicated than some individuals allow.