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"Think of a lost puzzle piece, its edge bent to fit."
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Weather
by Faith Shearin
Jul 8
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Lineage, Land + Leaps of Trace.
...Honorable Journeys with/for Our Ancestors.
Jul 1
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Have You Heard There is a Secret Chord?
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If I Should Die Before I Wake...
Jul 29, 2025
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Renewable Energy.
Mar 21
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Ghost Ships
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The Between Time
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This Brutiful World
Big Thoughts and Small Shifts for Surviving These Times.
Jan 11
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A BEattitude Returned
Bestowing a Plan BE approach to these last days of 2025.
Dec 15, 2025
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Earth Our Body.
An Eco-Reimagination of the Planet and Our Place in Co-Creation with Her.
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The Fog
and Other End Time Stories
Aug 10, 2025
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Me, Myself & . . .
Befriending Your Pieces, Parts, Petitioners & Partisans.
Jun 29, 2025
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Armchair Escapes
...Aho and Ahoy, Matey!
May 26, 2025
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Calgon...Take Me Away.
A Collective Escape.
May 11, 2025
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The Truth is...
I Can't Even.
Apr 14, 2025
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Coffee
an Ode
Mar 2, 2025
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The Myth of the Good Daughter...
and other stories that need re-remythologizing.
Feb 24, 2025
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Today's Sermon
A special edition of Soapbox Sunday.
Feb 16, 2025
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Tactility and Treasure Hunts
and Other Life-Saving Apothecaries.
Feb 3, 2025
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Scattered
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The Between Time
Honoring Your Place at the Crossroads.
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Renewable Energy.
Planting Hope and Other Spring Tend-encies.
Mar 21
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A Pocket Full of Magic
One Not-so-Hidden Secret to Living an (M)powered Life
Mar 2
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Almanacs + Auguries
An Antidote for Gloom & Doom Scrolling
Jan 27
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My Word, People!
Bold Wishes, Brave Beginnings + the Best of Intentions.
Jan 19
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There's a Box for That!
A Ritual to Close Out the Year.
Dec 27, 2025
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Celebrating the Wins
Reframing Rejection as a Newbie Writer (Cosplaying as a Soon-to-be, Hopefully, Maybe, Please, Please, Please! Possibly Published Author).
Dec 12, 2025
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Mapping our Way Home
If Those Old Walls Could Talk, What Would They Say?
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The Gossamer Thin Veil at the End of the Lane
Walking with My Dead and Other Autumnal Stories
Nov 2, 2025
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The Rime of a Modern Overlander
Making a Case for Mandatory Road Trips in a Time of Peril.
Oct 10, 2025
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Weather
by Faith Shearin
Jul 8
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The Vase
by Jeffrey McDaniel
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The In-Between
by Micah Josiah
Jun 24
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The Eulogy I Didn't Give (V)
by Bob Hicok
Jun 17
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Psalm for the Slightly Tilted
by Ilya Kaminsky
Jun 10
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Hard Work
by Jim Dodge
Jun 3
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How Dark the Beginning
by Maggie Smith
May 27
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Living Will
by Doug Anderson
May 20
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A Scattering
by Christopher Reid
May 13
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Sending Flowers
by Hannah Stevenson
May 6
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Up
by Margaret Atwood
Apr 29
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Instructions Before Visiting Earth
by James McCrae
Apr 22
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Ponderings
Of Loaves and Fishes
Requiem for a Cat.
Feb 12
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The December Deluge
When it Rains, it Pours, and Other Idioms of Misfortune.
Dec 12, 2025
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A Good Death
and Other Such Mystiques + Mythologies.
Nov 24, 2025
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Pride in the Name of Love
An Ode to a Long-Suffering Soulmate + Dearheart
Nov 7, 2025
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A River Runs Through It
Elizabeth Gilbert & Our Collective Addiction to Misogyn-moir
Sep 5, 2025
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The Bengal Blues
...An Ode to a Cat.
Jan 21, 2025
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Winter Solstice
In praise of seasonal Stillness.
Dec 21, 2024
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Mortality & Mulch
musings on life, death, prune juice, and awe
May 5, 2024
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The Fine Art of Listening Back
when life speaks to you
May 3, 2024
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