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I spent a few weeks in Mexico last month and had the privelege to visit the forested mountains on the border between the states of Michoacán and Mexico. It was early December and millions of monarch butterflies had just arrived there from all the eastern half of North America to roost for the winter. They… Continue reading Dispatch from Macheros, Michoacán
On a bright, cool, and crisp Autumn morning in Wyoming earlier this year, I was driving up to work filled with a sense of nervous anticipation I used to feel regularly on such mornings. I don't watch much college football or playoff baseball anymore but the nostalgia was welcome. On this day, my excitement was… Continue reading A Season with Steamboat
Spring into Never Summer I. In early June, the school year ended and I bid farewell to the windswept prairie outside Vista Academy and the quiet paths along Sand Creek. My idea to aimlessly tour the western United States via bicycle was quashed for the time being by some lingering hip issues so I… Continue reading A Year in Reading – Part III
Spring I. As it warmed up and the leaves unfurled from the cottonwoods, I spent more time exploring outside, taking the bike paths south and east through Aurora and west through Denver along Cherry Creek. I also hit the streets with my fellow citizens as 45's regime took power in Washington. The marches were… Continue reading A Year in Reading – Part II
The following is the first installment of my attempt to consolidate my journal notes from last year (2017) into something of a coherent story. It was a year of solitude, wandering, and a fair amount of reading. My memories of each phase of the year, each place I found myself in, are strongly associated with,… Continue reading A Year in Reading – Part I
It's been well over a week of freezing temperatures here on the banks of Grand Glaize Creek. This morning I could still make out the little footprints of my nephew in the backyard from when we went romping through the snow on Christmas Eve. I've been starting to feel some physical effects of cabin fever… Continue reading Lunchtime on the Grand Glaize
Today, people across the entire planet celebrate another quarter revolution around the sun. Our spinning planet's tilted axis is pointed directly away* from the sun again. My fellow seasonally depressed inhabitants of the northern hemisphere and I rejoice in the end of the three-month shortening of days and the beginning of the three-month lengthening. It's… Continue reading Happy Solstice!
The low-angle light of the afternoon sun filtered through newly bare branches of pin oak, walnut, and ash. It was autumn in the burbs. After several cold, gray days spent holed up inside staring at glowing screens, I finally dragged myself outside for some productive manual labor. I grabbed a rake from the garage and… Continue reading Make Like a Tree and… Split Water with Sunlight
I notice, I wonder 