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Filtered light

Shadows and humming, songs and solitary notes. Light coming through the holly leaves. Circles of shadows on the snow from the red berries. Birds folding themselves into the pointed trees. The sound of the refrigerator or the heating system when the wind isn’t speaking. The ice already melting and winter just settling in. The...

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Very little

A gap, a missing part.  Searching for the meaning of the word hiatus, I realized that without ceremony or even without obstructions you can go trucking through time and weeks and schedules and not notice that all that is encompassed in those groupings are...

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Renovations

There are no doors on the kitchen cabinets and the draws are also gone. They are all being sanded and coated with new varnish. Despite seeing the openings, the empty spaces where the drawers were; the contents of the cabinets unimpeded by the doors...

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If you have to follow something

Why not follow your dreams?  Let’s take an example from every workshop you have ever taken.  You start your list of pros and cons. I’ll start mine.  First thoughts...

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Sit like a mountain

A mountain can be read like the Torah by a geologist. Each layer has meaning and the meaning builds upon the layer below it or speaks to the layer...

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Go with the flow

Melville looked for an “insular Tahiti” and you know what, that’s not a bad idea. The notion that you can go with the flow and be in the place...

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