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Tonight, we'll be reading from How to Amuse Your Self and Others,

published in 1993 and written by Lena and Adelia Beard.

A listener wrote to us asking for a newscast about pressed flowers. So the selections for

tonight include that and other flower crafts along with how to build a hammock.

Let's get cozy. Close your eyes. Relax your body. Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take a few deep breaths. Wildflowers and their preservation.

Before the first green leaves make their appearance, while the snows of winter still linger in the

shaded nooks and the branches are still bare, though blushing with the full flowing sap that tinges their tips pink, yellow, and red,

when the air is filled with a sweet freshness and delicate fragrance. It's charming in our

rambles to find scattered here and there upon the hillside, down among the roots of the great trees, or under the hedges delicate little

wild flowers waving on their fragile stalks with the faintest passing breeze.

They are so exquisitely beautiful with their tender hues and graceful shapes that a longing

comes to possess them. And why not keep them fresh at home? Plants live in the earth and

require light, air, and moisture.

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