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A new <font color="#351c75"><b>Plant Auction Fundraiser</b></font> has begun and runs until Sunday night. </font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font size="6"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 150%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">This is the largest auction we've had in some time and <i>may</i> be the last one we hold this year. </font><font size="4"><br>
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See partway down our homepage for the auction terms and listings: </font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font size="6"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 150%;"><font size="4"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 150%;"><font size="4"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 150%;"><font size="4"><font color="#0000ff"><b><a href="http://www.sacredsucculents.com/">www.sacredsucculents.com</a><br>
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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#ff0000"><b>Please read the full terms before bidding.</b></font> <b style=""><i style=""><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" color="#9900ff">All bids should be directed to our other email:</font></i></b> <b>benkamm@monitor.net </b><br>
The auction closes this Sunday, November 27, at 6:00pm PST. Auction plants should ship within a week of payment. </font><font size="4"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 150%;"><font size="4"><br>
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<div><font size="4"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 150%;"><font size="4">Our <b><font color="#351c75">Specimen Plant List</font></b> is updated, see below the auction on the homepage</font></span></font></font><font size="4"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 150%;"><font size="4">.</font></span></font></font></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 150%;"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font size="4"><font color="#0b5394"><b><u>Note:</u></b></font> <b><font color="#990000">We are are not shipping <i>any</i> new retail orders
until spring 2023</font>.</b> You are welcome to place an order now to reserve
plants, just know it will not ship until around April next year. We are
taking time out this winter for essential nursery renovations and
irrigation installation. We greatly appreciate your patience.<br><b style=""><font color="#274e13">
We will continue to ship orders from our Specimen Plant List and any Plant Auctions throughout the winter.</font></b></font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><br>
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<p><u><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font size="4">Other news:</font></font></u></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font size="4">We
just learned of the death of another friend who had an influential role
on the direction of our life: Ken Symington passed away in September at
the age of 90. Ken was a Cuban born chemical engineer and one of the
unsung heroes of the entheobotany renaissance of the 1990s. With Rob
Montgomery, Terence McKenna, and Jonathan Ott, Ken organized progressive
educational conferences around the world including the famous annual
gatherings in Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico--where we first met many fine
folks in 1994. We all have Ken to thank for the beautiful English
translation of one of the most poetic books on Amazonian mythology,
plant lore and wizardry: Cesar Calvo's classic <i>The Three Halves of Ino Moxo</i>.
Ken was a kind and radiant soul who encouraged us to follow a green and
flower strewn life path. We were blessed to have known him.</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font size="4">Our sentiments from a couple years back seems appropriate for the holiday: </font></font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><br>
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are no words we know that can fully express our deep and sincere
gratitude for your support and enthusiasm over the years. We would not
exist without you. Collectively we have introduced hundreds of new
plants into cultivation, hopefully safeguarding some from extinction and
cultural loss. And of course at the heart of our gratitude is the
plants themselves–we are all truly blessed to be born of such a fecund
world with an astounding diversity of vegetal wonders to nourish and
flourish us. </font><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font size="4"></font></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font size="6"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 150%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Ben Kamm and family</font></span></font></font></p><br>Sacred Succulents<br>
PO Box 781<br>
Sebastopol, CA 95473 USA<br>
<a href="http://www.sacredsucculents.com">http://www.sacredsucculents.com</a><br>
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