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Alchemy
Whatever hardships we have, reaching out to lighten someone else’s burden allows alchemy to happen. My partner’s father, at almost 90...
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18 hours ago2 min read
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Migration is Natural
White-faced Ibis We have a long-standing May tradition of traveling over the mountains that contain our valley on the west and dropping...
sibodonkey
May 72 min read
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Fertile Fields and Forests
Across both the european landmass and Turtle Island, the Earth’s axial tilt provides changing seasons that my ancestors recognized with...
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May 22 min read
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Strengthening Creative Muscles
My friend Wendy introduced me to the term Craftivism. Her usual choice of creativity is fiber-based, as in the quilted piece above. She...
sibodonkey
Apr 212 min read
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Rockhoppers Having Fun
When people refer to the Heard Islands and McDonald Islands as "uninhabited," of course they mean BY PEOPLE. So these incredible wildlife...
sibodonkey
Apr 121 min read
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Be-ing Kind
At the Tucson Festival of Books, community organizations of all kinds shared the white tents populating the University of Arizona's...
sibodonkey
Mar 172 min read
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Beyond Home
David Wright Faladè and his new novel. Flying off to Arizona tomorrow for the Tucson Festival of Books is a big deal for me. But one of...
sibodonkey
Mar 102 min read
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Not so Impossible
“Impossible” was also kind of an ironic way of thumbing our nose at the doubters. These are words from Pat Brown, founder of Impossible...
sibodonkey
Mar 21 min read
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Wild Hart
Naomi Owens-Beek, Saulteau First Nation Powerful storytelling in a visual format, standing up for mountain caribou comes alive in the...
sibodonkey
Feb 181 min read
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Shifting tones
from decolonial atlas When harm is coming our way, we have to be a protective force, in our warrior stance, for people and planet....
sibodonkey
Feb 102 min read
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Engage
Jenny O'Connell Whether we tend to hide away from minus twenty Fahrenheit outdoors or bolt as political stews boil over and douse the gas...
sibodonkey
Feb 52 min read
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Planetary Words
In a context of ever-present change, our planet’s ongoing experiments with Life have been “a big, joyful party”* of diverse approaches to...
sibodonkey
Jan 222 min read
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Simple as a Seed
Seed Catalogs Are Arriving As Snow Sifts Down Daily In my 50's before heading to graduate school, my choice was weighted toward my home...
sibodonkey
Jan 42 min read
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Double-Up
Play Twice as Hard! Everything is better when shared, right? Writers are urged to double up the ways each word or image can act in a...
sibodonkey
Dec 23, 20242 min read
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Winter Solstice
My parents celebrating My parents got married on the year's longest night, and once we were old enough to realize what the extra hours in...
sibodonkey
Dec 20, 20242 min read
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Imagine
For National Horse Day, the not-quite-300 year old United States salutes an over 30-THOUSAND year old relationship between people and...
sibodonkey
Dec 12, 20242 min read
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Incalculable
A small calico cat lived at their vet's in a carrier, her front legs just nubbins. She didn't fare well among rowdier residents. My...
sibodonkey
Dec 4, 20242 min read
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Passion into Purpose
Sometimes stepping away from current events is the healthiest offering we can make to people around us, to ourselves, and to the world....
sibodonkey
Nov 22, 20242 min read
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No CATaclysms
Who is immune to the ratcheting up of anxiety and distress, the societal focus on impending CATaclysms? With great good fortune, cats...
sibodonkey
Oct 29, 20242 min read
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Public Art Signals Shifting Landscape
Jackson Hole Public Art’s final installations in the Land Signals series will be unveiled at the end of this month at the Greater...
sibodonkey
Oct 8, 20242 min read
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