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The Intelligence of Winter
Winter doesn’t arrive so much as recalibrate the world. First a thinning, light siphoned from the sky in long, slow increments, as if the earth is teaching us again the math of enough. The forests feel it earliest. Each tree, a quiet instrument tuned to the smallest shift in the planet’s tilt, listens as the…
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Field Notes From a Daughter of the Land
“The human heart is the first home of democracy. It is where we embrace our questions: Can we be equitable? Can we be generous? Can we listen with our whole being… and do we have enough resolve in our hearts to act courageously, without giving up—ever—trusting our fellow citizens in the determined pursuit of a…
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The Parable of the Two Brothers
There were once two brothers, born of the same father but raised in different lands. They were flesh and blood, yet time and distance carved a canyon between them. One brother lived in the house of their father, in the land that had been promised long before he was born. He carried the name, bore…
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The Shape of Wild Grace
You walk the land barefoot, listening to the stories woven into stone, the way water carves a canyon, the way silence holds its breath before rain. You teach us how to kneel in desert sand, to place our palms against the pulse of earth and feel the weight of all that has come before –…
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Just a Few Days Before a Fresh Beginning
The earth hums beneath the stillness, its rhythm felt in the breath of the wind, the soft exhale of branches weighed with frost. This is the pause—the holy interlude— where endings and beginnings collide. A lone bird calls across the void of twilight, its song a question and an answer all at once. What has…
Field Notes of a Wanderer 