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The skunk, the tomatoes and the wasps | Ammi Midstokke (opens the original)
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On a dark morning recently, I exploded from the warm slumber of my covers into a full sprint, as if my pillow and a single Birkenstock sufficed as starting blocks. Middle-aged women in their underwear can move surprisingly fast in emergent circumstances. Before I reeled around a corner, down the hall, across the main room, and to the laundry room door – which I slammed shut with such great force, the whole house shuddered – I had been in that circadian state where real sounds shape dreams. A par
A spider who breaks all the rules | Ammi Midstokke (opens the original)
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The spider living in my wall is breaking the rules. Actually, there is only one rule: Live outside. I recognize that in a moment of benevolence, I once discussed letting a seven-legged spider survive in my bathroom for a while. However, in my bathroom there is a fern where they can live in discretion and mostly avoid giving me the heebie-jeebies. That is the technical term for when all my limbs dance in a different direction while I flail about in hysterics. It’s sort of like Richard Simmons mee
Ambition and other killers of the present moment | Ammi Midstokke (opens the original)
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The top of things has been my primary destination for a great many years now. The explorer gene is one I inherited from my father and our line of Viking ancestors. For much of my child life, we traipsed among the mountains of our backyard (state land) to get our bearings, discover copses of ancient cedars, and read the history of the hills as it is written in time: crumbling old cabins, abandoned miner’s pans, charred trees. There is a primordial pull to the apex of a space, as if one will not o
Friendships without borders | Ammi Midstokke (opens the original)
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A lifetime ago, I lived in Germany, where a goal of one day running a 5K turned into a marathon, mostly because I was prone to getting lost on the many wooded trails. I had a hard time finding people to play outside with me, for the Germans are Wednesday and Sunday afternoon walkers, and the cultural expectation of my parent-peers was that women put their children before everything else, and most certainly before “sport.” Convention was bred out of my family a generation before me, so I plopped
Grief engulfs a city | Ammi Midstokke (opens the original)
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With the impacts of climate change, it appears the question is not if we are going to be overrun with flood or fire, but when. Many neighborhoods in Spokane received their ill-fated answer last week, as the flames swallowed trees, homes, and the evidence of lives lived and curated in collections of family portraits. Once, I had to pack my life into 10 boxes. I remember the heart-wrenching feeling of separating from the things that defined my days: coffee cups familiar to my hand, tables where my
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