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Lupines fading into the dusk. The smell of lilacs from across the road (and the smell of the freshly cut grass). Sweet, slim birches...

A script on a stage. Seeing others make art, on the fly, off the cuff, by instinct and pure hunch. But equally: the hot slab of rock at...

My mom’s house is transformed: bright Swedish red with white trim and a pale steel roof. The trees I remember being planted when I was...

I have four red coffee cups that I bought at Saver’s a few months ago (to go with my four blue plates, purchased the same day). Today,...

I saw beautiful, bronzy waxwings in a neighbor’s apple tree today. I liked that they didn’t lift off and leave when I stopped to watch....

I rolled out the rug tonight. Which is a miracle that doesn’t show its work in such a simple sentence: I put food and dishes in...

“Be gentle with yourself,” She said. “You don’t have to do it all now,” the Second She said. “I saved you a cookie!” said the Third....

It’s always surprising when gratitude and delight feel so close to grief and overwhelm. I’m lying in bed (the mattress is on the floor,...

I took a break from packing and cleaning to go for a walk along a favorite road that runs through the woods and ends at a lake I only...

A long nap after a late morning. Riding all the feelings, reaching out, finding kindness everywhere. (Including a kid who is still...

There can be a lot of good in a goodbye. So much so that it leaks out the corners of your eyes just from looking at it, makes your throat...

The trillium, the thimble berry canes, and the maple seedlings are all the same height right now– a green fringe a foot or so above the...

People who are doing the work. Who have been practicing knowing the difference between Me and You. Because when you know what is yours,...

I once went on a canoe trip and was either angry, exhausted, or asleep for most of it. (Well, except for the fun part: getting the...

We sat in the yard and drank rhubarb schnapps from 2018. The ranunculus was in its prime, waxy, silky yellow cups that have a sturdiness...

Sometimes you have to go around and around and around a thing to know what it is, what you feel, to get a whiff of what it is at its...

Two summers ago I cleared a gravel-bound garden bed, levered up sod, expanded, planted. And I moved some of my rhubarb plants to better...

Sometimes doing is the best, but sometimes saying and not doing, spinning out a story, teasing out a possibility like flax between the...

How can one day be so full of delights? I snuggled a cat, took an unplanned and magnificent nap, hiked in the woods in shorts, went to a...

There’s a thread you can pick up and follow through every moment, every thought and feeling– and it isn’t held in linear time or physical...