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Chasing Poems at Pasture

The speed at which things pass is robbery. Poems flash like strobes of light below trees and then are gone. For instance, on my way to...

Details

Be quick with the details. They run fast like small children. Seize them by the sleeve, hook their hood, grip a hand. Grab hold of what...

My Morning Web: A short and honest commitment of truth to the page.

I wanted to uncurl into the new day like a cat or a wave. But waking up today felt like swatting away spider webs—Obstacles that you...

Words Written on World Turtle Day

As I tossed back my morning dose of Instagram posts and memes, I came across a national geographic photograph of the river terrapin...

Stop in the name of imperfection: Edit what you tell yourself before helping others.

“Perfect lets you stall, ask more questions, do more reviews, dumb it down, safe it up and generally avoid doing anything that might...

The conspiracies we author: Empathizing with the universal impulse to spin tales instead of truth.

Last Wednesday I read this New Yorker article exploring the history and present implications of conspiracy theories in America...

The Multi-Layered Moment: a frosting-inspired reflection on history and her happiness.

As I spread the buttercream frosting from the belly of the Boheme cake to its outermost edge, a habitual worry cut the silence between my...

Monuments or Madeleines: Remembering a Life.

Kneeling against the sun-warmed marble of Marcel Proust's tombstone at Pere Lachaise Cemetery, a quote that had buried itself in the tomb...

Reflections on impermanence

"We're all going to die, all of us. What a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and...

The rightness in being wrong

“It’s worth remembering that for any change to happen in your life, you must be wrong about something. If you’re sitting there, miserable...