glacial till
writing to sift through the (often jumbled) beauty and sadness of it all
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- Sep 20, 2026
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August’s Sentences (opens the original)
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Hello! Welcome to August’s sentences. I am finally pulling these together on a September afternoon where pounding rain and claps of thunder have punctuated the day. Thanks, as always, for reading. I’d love to know what you think. 8.1.26: The moose trail wended through dense willows and led us to a clear stream seeping through the beaver’s gnawed architecture. 8.2.26: My phone pinged to a cell tower after days of being mostly relegated to the glove box and delivered a lashing reminder of a world
July's Sentences (opens the original)
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Hello! Welcome to July’s sentences. This post marks the second full year of jotting down these daily words and sharing them here. Thanks, as always, for reading. I’d love to know what you think.7.1.26: The boy is injected with the collective buzz of a theater watching soccer. 7.2.26: The girl abruptly demands a trip to the gas station to buy fuel, a petro-maniac compulsion overtaking her as if she senses we might be heading into a scene from a Cormac McCarthy novel, and she instead leaves the 7-
A June Jumble of Sentences (opens the original)
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Hello! Welcome to June’s sentences. Thanks, as always, for reading. 6.1.26: The toddler is three.6.2.26: A house finch’s red head flashes above the flood-irrigated field. 6.3.26: The boy trudges across the elementary school crosswalk with his legs latticed with smeared sunscreen and the summer’s first Band-Aid. 6.4.26: The puppy wriggles on her back in the cool grass like a horse just out of its saddle. 6.5.26: A discussion with the boy about the “weirdest looking tree” has me inventor
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