Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), May 5th, 2001
A magnolia in Minnesota is an improbability. Spring upon spring, its flowery audacity startles the landscape. Especially in the wake of such a bleak winter, such loveliness is mystifying. How strange to live at a latitude that leaps so quickly from bitter ice to blossom! How remarkable to see a delicate southerner outlast northern tyranny. But here on the tundra, that's how it happens: Winter ends not with a whimper, but with bursts of white laughter. Do you suppose the magnolia is a Buddhist, or simply an optimist? Impossible to tell, for trees are uninclined to speech. Either way, the magno...
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