NPR reported this week on the environmental implications of meat consumption, information that can inspire us all to limit our intake given the cost in resources including grain, water, land, and energy – not to mention health considerations and how animals are treated.

It has been a year since Chris Alexander died, the last Sunday of June 2011.  In her memory, today I’ll be wearing a New Haven Reads t-shirt.

Earlier posts, e.g.  in February 2012, have encouraged readers to give blood.  One may do so every eight weeks, and the summer – with school blood drives scarce and many people away on vacation – is a time when the supply of blood barely meets the demand.  I donated blood yesterday and continue to encourage neighbors to do so.

The Hartford Courant’s “Extraordinary Life” obituary series this week profiled Eva Loew, who died last month at age 90.  She was a nurse, a public servant, and the matriarch of a farm family.  One of her six children, Karen, was my fifth-grade teacher.  Eva was a wonderful neighbor and citizen.  Condolences to her family…