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Letters From Labrador

Essays from a 60 square-foot writing shack connecting the world of imagination to the heart of wherever we find ourselves.

Newsletter · By Stefan Calabria · Official site

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  1. Issue · Aug 30, 2026

    The Alder and the Butterfly (opens the original)

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    “Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.” — Charles DarwinConsider the speckled alder (Alnus rugosa). A woody weed to some. Encroaching scourge of pond edges. Sometimes growing as large as a small tree, this shrub has no showy flowers. Nor does it offer tidbits edible to humans. But how often that which appears dull at first glance is instead endowed with beauty, wonder, and benefit.Though adapted to wetlands, damp roadside ditches, and river banks, alders c

  2. Issue · Jul 18, 2026

    Black Violins (opens the original)

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    I knew her back from when she was youngThose days poured out faster than rounds from a gunScattered like shells and lost to the seaLike the river, the days move rapidly ~ Sun Kil MoonI migrate between dreams and the multitudinous night sounds drifting through my loft window. The dusk soliloquy of the catbird is replaced by echoes of tree frogs.Later, a freight train engine’s purr blossoms along the river. The clicking of steel wheels

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