Cedar and Ben took their two daughters to the Island of Negras Oriental to visit his father and wife and attend a family reunion. There they met an aunt and cousin who survived the big typhoon last autumn. I believe the aunt is still living under a tarp after her roof blew off. Three magnets were given to some favorable aunts at the gathering. One in particular is a midwife in Manila. Her husband is really into cock fighting and bought a couple of roosters to take home with him. Ben attended a fight but Cedar stayed home because women at cock fights are considered very bad luck.
Cedar is an artist who paints silk beautifully but she and Ben also have a pretty impressive organic gardening operation back in the United States. Naturally they noticed things that grew in the Philipines. And grow they did. Cedar's observation was that "people were doing permaculture naturally and stuff was growing everywhere."
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