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Books for Winter Reading Storytelling has been a part of human social evolution as long as we've had words, and with the magic of written languages we then spread our ability to share stories well beyond what we might hear around the campfire in our own communities. Opportunities for bringing my favorite writing and authors to people who might not have encountered them yet are always exciting to me, and Writing Heights Writers Association is offering an online class, Beyond H

so many hounds, so little time This one's a little longer than my usual Acoustic Burro; a friend and fellow novelist who works with The Masters Review asked for a piece to include in their "Writers on Not Writing" series. Bonus: same link also gets you words from Emily Mathis. Writers on Not Writing

A fall breeze lifts colored leaves from tall maples, birch, beech and oak trees as an autumn drizzle softens the piles already on the ground, where a friend’s two-year-old dog pounces and rolls with joy. Turtle Island spans all of North America, including my original home ground here along the Kennebec River and the little farm in a high Rocky Mountain valley that has been home now for decades. So much joy in landscapes all across this continent, a place so many people from a

Category Five book cover What a weekend at Jackson Hole Book Festival’s Conversation for the Community .  For one, check out featured...

Choosing where we put our attention is an often overlooked superpower. On yesterday's equinox, earth balanced daylight and starlight....

The Acoustic Burro will be on an extended break to focus on the current novel-length project, but we couldn't just leave without...

Having camped among the coyotes, pronghorns & nighthawks, i wandered through the remote restoration work site before anyone else arrived....

The ocarina “vessel flute”, variously made from clay or animal horn, is found around the globe and from earliest human cultures. Second...

While traveling—in unfamiliar surroundings, assistance less readily available—attentiveness climbs the scale. So much to note! A cactus...

Hey, You! Koalas evolved alongside eucalyptus forests, able to digest the usually-toxic leaves with assistance from symbiotic bacterial...

One person’s attempted solution to the plummeting numbers of rhino across Africa, recognizing that rhino horn can be regularly harvested,...

Book publishing is changing--as it always has, since people first began putting stories into pictographs and hieroglyphic renderings. As...

How remarkable when we can share labor in our communities in ways that lift up common values and create safety and joy with colleagues....

When we bought an unused pasture in the hay-producing south end of this valley, my first thought for homebuilding was to try a strawbale...

We saw a few bees here before even the first dandelion, but only now does that seem like it should have signaled some annual celebration...

Whatever hardships we have, reaching out to lighten someone else’s burden allows alchemy to happen. My partner’s father, at almost 90...

White-faced Ibis We have a long-standing May tradition of traveling over the mountains that contain our valley on the west and dropping...

Across both the european landmass and Turtle Island, the Earth’s axial tilt provides changing seasons that my ancestors recognized with...

My friend Wendy introduced me to the term Craftivism. Her usual choice of creativity is fiber-based, as in the quilted piece above. She...

When people refer to the Heard Islands and McDonald Islands as "uninhabited," of course they mean BY PEOPLE. So these incredible wildlife...