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Summer Solstice + New Moon: Ecstasy is everywhere

A view over a wooden fence. Beyond is a lush, verdant garden of innumerable plants and trees.
Not my garden, but peering into an urban community garden in Totaunt/Mashauwomuk/Boston. Here is a fertile, green place, but what else does all this sunlight do besides make things grow?

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