HeyJaredReading Water with Becca Lawton
Home of Becca Lawton, author, fluvial geologist, Grand Canyon river guide. Join me for monthly news that connects us to water, rivers, wild nature, writing, and each other. "Becca writes words that help. That heal." — poet Terry Ehret
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The joy of working on a crew (opens the original)
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This is my day to give time to Meals on Wheels. It’s still dark here, but I’m headed out to work in a church kitchen with a crew of all-volunteer cooks.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1092" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!d_Jv!,w_
The sky closes (opens the original)
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Dearest ones,What a helluva week, month, year. I don’t have a lot, but I do have a river sunrise to share. We need it now, a place to gather.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1043" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vv54!,w_1456,c_lim
It costs a lot to look this cheap (opens the original)
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Dearest ones,What to do when those we love go to the angels and leave us to face a world without them? It happens, a lot, and it’s a good time to go to our roots.Maybe take a field trip for your heart, in a nearby, beloved mountain home. <source type="image/webp"
Poetic license, river guides, and writing the watershed (opens the original)
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Moira Magneson is the author of In the Eye of the Elephant (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2025) and the chapbook He Drank Because (Rattlesnake Press, 2008).She also co-created the novella A River Called Home: A River Fable (Toad Road Press, 2024) with fine-arts illustrator Robin Center.<p style="text-align: center
When a watershed is enough (opens the original)
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What to do when the sun is in your sign? What resonates now, two years after ringing the bell of completion at the radiologist’s office?Let the beauty you love be what you do. — after poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommerand dharma teacher Susie HarringtonPerhaps the timbre of the meditation bowl, or the day’s first chais, shared with the mate who drove you to every radiation a
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