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Writing with reverence and irreverence from the thresholds. Nature in/as all things.

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Sep 30, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 30, 2026

    30 September - one hundred thousand welcomes (opens the original)

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    September was a spell of sun on water, of diffuse beams of scattering light. September was a shifting spell, a mapping spell, a lamentation of swans, a raft of mergansers, a persistent goad: grow again grow again grow again, just as the nights get cool, just as the leaves ready themselves for the fall.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7WMG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%

  2. Issue · Aug 31, 2026

    31 August - savor the fruit from forgotten trees (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Positive tone

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    This ode to August bridges three places: Carpinteria, California where I spent a week in the echo of my beloved Aunt’s life after her July passing, a week in Gulf Coast Florida, where I companioned my wife’s MIL while the rest of the family gathered in MN, and two split weeks in the inbetweens back in Milwaukee. Time more tidal than linear. Summer still summering.I have just now discovered a fence of grapes in the alley behind the coffee shop, starting to ripen. I have long avowed a personal cod

  3. Issue · Jul 31, 2026

    31 July - fresh from retreat, fresh with loss (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Neutral tone

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    I have written every month for two years. I often wax about how practices come and go, how we find our way back to the ones that matter, that everything is not for everyone and certainly not all the time. For a month or two, I wake every morning and do morning pages. For at least two weeks, I start every day with warm water and lemon. For ten days, I gua sha my jaw and my cheekbones. Sometimes, I even floss.But I’ve been writing a newsletter a love note to passing time for two years.<div class="

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