it looked so ordinary, inert, that rock on the ground but underneath was a whole world seething with life a thousand things you upset with your profound ignorance and offhanded curiosity in addition to the grains of sand and dirt there were hundreds, perhaps thousands of beating hearts, tiny lives you disrupted some burrowing deeper […]
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I pedaled hard. I furiously rode. I rode my bike towards the edge of town. The town where I was raised, but I was still a child. I rode and rode and dropped my bike and abandoned it by the side of the field. I had not yet been to the edge of town alone. […]
Last night was the third night in a row that I failed to sleep properly. (I know, isn’t this already shaping up to be a fascinating blog post? Keep reading, it gets even more interesting!) Two nights ago there was a super dramatic heat wave (3 days in a row over 80 degrees in Seattle) and I was TOO HOT TO SLEEP, and the […]
The first days of February hearken a bleak stretch of winter burnout that is part and parcel of life in the Pacific Northwest. Flashbacks of summers past infiltrate my thoughts as I go about my daily business. The first green buds and shoots are popping out on bushes and trees and pushing tentatively through the soil, teasing me with their promise of the warmth and sunshine to come. […]
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