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White on White

White on White
When I was a boy I visited the Museum of Natural History whenever I could. I was as interested in saber-tooth tigers and wooly mammoths as I was in frilled lizards, dung beetles and spiders. They informed my dreams and fired my imagination. I grew up outside, sunburned and salted, callow and calloused, all denim…
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Solstice

Solstice
Many early cultures honored and worshipped the sun as the life giving source of all creation. Throughout the year there are auspicious dates connected to the alignments of our planetary orbit around the sun. Many archeological sites remain today that testify that earlier civilizations tracked these alignments in the landscape. This knowledge helped plot the return of longer…
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The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden
We raise many things in our garden. Roses, flowers wild and cultivated, sacred tobacco and sage, and the three sisters; corn, squash and beans. Sunflowers and goldfinches, mullein and honey bees. Zinnias and cosmos and watermelons. Worms and grubs, butterflies and bottle flies, and the Garden Spider. Raccoons and opossums, chipmunks, moles and mice visit regularly.…
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Imagine

Human beings are blessed with the gift to dream. The work of our minds is apparent in systems that grow from sharing, building on structure and culture. Systems of import and export of ideas and ideals, such as education, science, and government. But it is our hearts that are the seat of our true gift, perceiving…
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