The little feather tree ended up this year on one of the window sills.
I've recently reread The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, an always delightful book, though it has Dorothy in silver shoes instead of the iconic ruby reds of the movie. Reading articles this week about the 40th anniversary of the publication of Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee reminded me, however, that L. Frank Baum, who wrote the Oz books, was a newspaper editor in South Dakota when Sitting Bull was killed and when the massacre at Wounded Knee occurred. Those events prompted him to call for the extermination of the Sioux. He was also a lifelong supporter of women's rights.
The little feather tree ended up this year on one of the window sills.