Michael is a thirty-something violinist who has abandoned his northern roots and settled in London, where he plays in a moderately successful string quartet, the Maggiore.
The country is so rooted, so settled, one thinks it has survived everything others can throw at it, but it won't survive its own wildly irresponsible experiments on itself.
Their roots will settle in the grounds of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, the sprawling complexes that stretch for almost 10 blocks northeast of 14th Street near the East River, in one of the largest landscaping overhauls in Manhattan's history.
This allows the cutting time to establish roots and settle before times of excessive heat or cold, or low moisture.
According to their friend William Rhode, they were putting down roots and finally settling down.
But Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton administered a dose of tough love, saying Yemen, an impoverished Arab nation, must earn increased foreign aid by rooting out corruption, settling internal strife and protecting the rights of girls and young women.
And many will be putting out roots in mild weather, settling in and getting used to their new surroundings, so that, come spring, they're raring to go.
It'll be good to get some roots and hopefully settle.
But remembering that Karole only returned to the United States 10 years ago to reform Armitage Gone! Dance (which had it's first incarnation in 1979), it takes time to settle roots down again, no matter how receptive the terrain.
The first few days after planting should have a bit more water to help the roots to get settled.
And the roots will be able to concentrate on settling in, instead of having to support new growth.
