Summer is filled with distractions and trying to keep your focus on big initiatives while everyone else is off frolicking or when you can smell the newly-mown grass outside your living room window as you drill yourself on logic games is a formidable task.

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She saw paper stars hanging from the ceiling, and cards and posters on the wall, and a homey bedspread upon the mattress, but faeries had come to carpet the room with grass, to pave the walls with stone and set them with jewels, and to blow a cover of clouds to hide the horrible suspended ceiling.

NEWYORKER: A Tiny Feast

The lifeblood of AIPAC is here in this room grass-roots activists of all ages, from all parts of the country, who come to Washington year after year to make your voices heard.

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One quipped that it will soon be standing room only in the long grass.

ECONOMIST: Long grass, tough choices

"The lawn needs to be watered, the cat box is stinky, there are dirty socks in the living room, silverware in the grass out back, and I can't get those children to get to bed at 7:30 no matter how hard I try, " he says.

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It is the job of the people in this war room to water and nurture the grass roots which sprang up so naturally four years ago.

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Apple hopes to raze 26 buildings on the site to make room for the "spaceship, " which will be surrounded by grass and trees.

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The most significant feature of Nevins's garden at Middlefield is the hornbeam room, entered as one moves up a flight of stone-and-grass steps toward a bench set on axis with what is the beating heart of any country house in summer, the well-used and much-loved screened porch.

WSJ: Modern Pastoral

Wilberforce may attack the complacency of the rich who refuse to hear about the suffering of the slaves, but Apted is candid enough to demonstrate that the privileges of wealth can be delightful: now and then, Wilberforce retreats to an estate in Yorkshire, where he lies on the grass in ecstatic communion with nature, and entertains the local poor in his fancy dining room.

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