Welcome to my pictures of things that are circular! 
In this list, I’ve included things that are flat and round (like a frisbee), things that are spherical (like an orange), and things that are round when you cut into them (like a cucumber). We hope you enjoy this list and find whatever you’re looking for! 
Above is a visual list of things that are circular... Enjoy!

Did you know trees and nature have the power to heal us from head to toe?
That is why it is always important —  especially now —  that we get outside and explore our urban forests, or just our backyards, patios, or even just looking out a window.
Here are a few of the ways the nature in your own community can can help out your body:

1. Starting at the top of your head with your brain, researchers have found being outside around nature and trees helps to calm and renew your brain’s thoughts, improving your ability to focus! 
   1. Pro Tip: When you find yourself stressed out, go outside and notice the types of plants and animals you see.  Do any trees live around you? Stay outside for ten to fifteen minutes and notice how your mind feels after!
2. Looking at the trees through your eyes can help your vision! People who spend more time outdoors are not as likely to need glasses for nearsightedness. Scientists have also found children who spend more than 2 hours a day outdoors are three times less likely to need glasses.
   1. Pro Tip: Go outside and look up into the branches of your favorite tree and see if you can find any critters that made a home in them.  How many critters can you find?
3. Taking a deep breath through your nose or mouth, what do you smell? Researchers have found outdoor activities can develop one’s taste and smell with different types of scents. Taste and smell work closely together, and the outdoors has a wider variety of aromas than the indoors!
   1. Pro Tip: Go into your garden or for a stroll around your neighborhood and count the different things you smell – from manure and soil to flowers and trees. How many smells are there?
4. Speaking of smells, that air goes into our lungs. We know that trees clean the air by absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen, but did you know this lowers the rates of asthma? Researchers have found communities with more trees have lower hospitalizations due to asthma!
   1. Pro Tip: Try out a breathing exercise. (Bonus if you do it outside!) Draw your elbows back to allow your chest to expand, take a deep inhale through your nose for five seconds, hold for three seconds, then slowly release through your mouth! What did you feel?
5. Do you wear your heart on your sleeve? Studies show that nature and trees positively impact blood pressure and cholesterol, lowers heart rate, and reduces the stress hormone cortisol!
   1. Pro Tip: If you can’t go outside, try looking at pictures or videos of nature – this is almost as good as the real thing for your heart! Do you notice a difference?
6. Trees and nature help with illness too! Researchers know that patients with views of natural settings from their hospital windows heal faster with less complications and take fewer pain medications than those who have no view.
   1. Pro Tip: Can you see a tree, park, shrub, or other plants from your window? If so, take time out of your day to look at it! If you don’t see any, try getting your very own house plant! You can even name and talk to them like a friend! What are your plants’ names?
7. When was the last time you touched a plant? Researchers have found that children who play outdoors are more tolerating of different textures than those who play solely inside.
   1. Pro Tip: If you have a garden or plants, try touching the soil your plants live in or touching the plants themselves. What do they feel like?
   2. Note: due to COVID-19, TreePeople is not encouraging others to touch plants in public places.
8. If you’re outside, sometimes you can lose your balance, but did you know that being outdoors on varying surfaces and playing in trees challenges different muscles, making you more stable?
   1. Pro Tip: The next time you go outside, try going on different surfaces: dirt, grass, sidewalk, whatever is in your urban forest. Is your body shifting in different ways based on the surface?
9. Times are pretty isolating right now, but nature and trees can help with social connection. Natural areas have the ability to increase socialization and make people feel less lonely.
   1. Pro Tip: Get outside if you’re feeling lonely and interact with nature in your urban forest! What types of plants and animals do you meet?
10. Above all else, nature and trees can help out with mental health. As minimal as five hours a month (two 40-minute sessions per week) in your urban forest can help to prevent mild depression.
    1. Pro Tip: Explore your urban forest and discover what lives around you! Let us know what you found!!

Written by Carissa Donahoo, Public/Mental Health Organizer

Alan Ford is an Italian comic book created by Max Bunker (Luciano Secchi) and Magnus (Roberto Raviola), in print since 1969. The comic book is a satirical take on classic secret agents laden with surreal and black humour, and sardonic references to aspects of the contemporary Italian and Western society.
Although it became widely popular in Italy shortly after its introduction, Alan Ford remained relatively unknown outside Italy. The French, Danish and Brazilian editions soon failed but the only other foreign edition, in SFR Yugoslavia, was a huge success, becoming and remaining one of the most popular comic books in the former country and its successors.
Although the initial plot in the first few episodes develops around an agent called Alan Ford, he is later just one of the central group of characters: Group TNT is an assembly of misfit secret agents, who operate from a flower shop in New York City, United States, which they use as a front for their secret headquarters. They are incompetent and lazy, yet intelligent and cunning, especially when it suits their own personal interests. Their outlandish biographies are dwarfed by that of their iron-fisted and shrewd leader, the wheelchair-ridden Number One, a Methusalem character who embezzles the millions paid to the group by American government or city fathers for secret missions, while paying a pittance to his agents.
The comic book ridicules aspects of American society, including capitalism and racism. There were also direct references to local Italian reality, whose social ills were often satirized by Magnus & Bunker, as well as terms in Milanese dialect.
Alan Ford is published monthly by Max Bunker Press in Italy. There are also editions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia (at least 4 different editions, as of 2008), Serbia and Slovenia. A Republic of Macedonia edition was also available for a while, and the Serbian editions are now imported into Macedonia and Montenegro, still remaining hugely popular. The comic book has been adapted to animated film and theater plays, as well as used as a source of inspiration in books and movies.

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It's all I have to bring today 
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It's all I have to bring today--
This, and my heart beside--
This, and my heart, and all the fields--
And all the meadows wide--
Be sure you count—should I forget
Some one the sum could tell--
This, and my heart, and all the Bees
Which in the Clover dwell.

Emily Dickinson - 1830-1886
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As in a boundless sea in darkening fields and meadows
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As in a boundless sea in darkening fields and meadows 
The sunset's tristful rays fade and then sink from sight, 
And in mute twilights wake, over the steppe the shadows 
Creep swiftly, bringing night. 

Soft sound the gophers' calls, and, ne'er the stillness waking, 
Jerboas now appear - two or perhaps just one. 
They ghost-like haunt the plain, great leaps across it taking, 
And all at once are gone… 

Ivan Bunin

Vegetarian food: Slovenia has a tasty variety of traditional vegetarian food – make sure not to miss the delicious dumplings called “štruklji”.
Slovenian traditional cuisine is rich in the meat and meat dishes. But still, there are several vegetarian options that will leave both your stomach and taste buds highly satisfied. The most common traditional Slovenian vegetarian dishes are buckwheat porridge, filled pasta from Idrija similar to ravioli and štruklji. Besides those there is also a vegetarian take on some other traditional dishes, which are usually prepared with meat, but the vegetarian versions are getting more and more popular. You can taste a lot of those vegetarian specialties joining the Food Tour in Ljubljana. 

Music Postcards: Music from the late 70s and early 80s performed on Ljubljana concerts.

Lene Lovich: My Lucky Number One

David Bromberg:  Mr. Bojangles

Egberto Gismonti:  Magico

Ensemble Havadià '81-'82:  L'eternita

Jani Kovačič:  Škoflca

John McLaughlin, Larry Coryell, Paco De Lucía - Meeting of the Spirits

Ibrica Jusić:  Emina

Drago Mlinarec: Caracas

Stefan Grossman:  Dallas Rag

Ginger Baker: Drum Solo

Sedmina (Melita & Veno Dolenc) : Magdalena

Lado Jakša:  Oslikana glasba

Ansambel Lojzeta Slaka: Kadar srečam te

All photos from the original concerts by M.Bočko