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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 2, 20252 min read


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...
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Apr 21, 20252 min read


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...
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Apr 12, 20251 min read


Be-ing Kind
At the Tucson Festival of Books, community organizations of all kinds shared the white tents populating the University of Arizona's...
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Mar 17, 20252 min read


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...
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Mar 10, 20252 min read


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...
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Mar 2, 20251 min read


Wild Hart
Naomi Owens-Beek, Saulteau First Nation Powerful storytelling in a visual format, standing up for mountain caribou comes alive in the...
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Feb 18, 20251 min read


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....
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Feb 10, 20252 min read


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...
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Feb 5, 20252 min read


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...
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Jan 22, 20252 min read


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...
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Jan 4, 20252 min read


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...
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Dec 23, 20242 min read


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...
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Dec 19, 20242 min read


Imagine
For National Horse Day, the not-quite-300 year old United States salutes an over 30-THOUSAND year old relationship between people and...
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Dec 12, 20242 min read


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...
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Dec 4, 20242 min read


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....
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Nov 22, 20242 min read


No CATaclysms
Who is immune to the ratcheting up of anxiety and distress, the societal focus on impending CATaclysms? With great good fortune, cats...
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Oct 29, 20242 min read


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...
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Oct 8, 20242 min read


Rabbit, Rabbit
For this year’s International Rabbit Day (last Saturday in September), my research into the strange tradition of earning good luck by...
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Sep 30, 20242 min read


Upstream Actions
Despite road construction, I easily found the bold sunrise-orange awnings at Best Friends’ Lifesaving Center in Salt Lake City. The...
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Sep 26, 20242 min read
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