HeyJaredM. Mark Miller—Works and Days
Works and Days is a free service where subscribers will get a monthly newsletter that reports on my work in progress and other activities. I'll also provide samples of my writing mostly about Yellowstone Park and Montana history.
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Today’s Cyber Zen Epicurean Aphorism (opens the original)
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When the sky crowds itself with unfinished rain, let your mind refuse to do the same.Breakthroughs arrive like sudden weather; they ask more of you than you had planned. But guilt only echoes yesterday’s intentions, never guides today.
Today’s Cyber-Zen-Epicurian Aphorism (opens the original)
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Cool mornings and clear skies make small duties lighter, opening space for important work.Routine tasks clear the path for the coming departure, and returning to chosen work restores the thread. Let the inviting sun that warms the deck steady you before the next step.
Today’s Cyber-Epicurean Aphorism (opens the original)
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The work that calls to you waits just beyond the small gates you must open first.And passing through them steadies your hands for what truly matters, letting the mind settle into the work it has been steadily carrying forward.
Today’s Cyber-Zen-Epicurean Aphorism (opens the original)
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~ Blue sky offers quiet permission to return to the work that waits.It asks nothing more than presence — and rewards nothing less.
Shaping the Story of Walter’s Room (opens the original)
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I’ve been working hard on my first adult novel, Walter’s Room. It follows Richard Vance, a recently tenured professor who returns to the Montana ranch where he grew up to quit smoking and gather family history. What begins as a summer of reflection becomes a reckoning with wounds that have shaped his family for generations.Richard’s search reveals a link between two tragedies: the drowning death of his youngest brother as a toddler, and the later death of his next younger brother in an ATV accid
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