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outside

I’m the only one on this trail that is well traveled in warmer months. The colors? Black and white almost. I’ve ventured out, away from

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baby

She came on December 26. Cecilia. New to this world. So much to understand. How to be. To be picked up. To be fed. To

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in Bath

“What attracts me … is that it’s not ‘about’ something …- it just IS something.” (Laura Hoptman, Art in America, 1/2019). I’m walking back from

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made it!

Isn’t it crazy that we use the words “made it” to mean, on one hand : made by hand. On the other: got to this

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here and there

I’ve looked out my window for years now and seen lake and mountains. In a month, I’ll look out of the window of another house

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tides

my horses hiding the thunderstorm Years ago, I was having a tough time at one point. Really tough. So much so that I couldn’t make

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owning

At this time of year, I tell my daughter, you feel as if you own the lake. It feels like it’s just us, no one

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what I see

I’m reading this wildly interesting book on Alexander Humboldt (by Andrea Wulf) who was one of the first environmentalists. I’m early in the book and,

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keystone

So in my latest best-loved book, The Invention of Nature, von Humboldt is struggling across an endless grass landscape in South America when he encounters an

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of course

thunderstorm coming Yes, I forgot. I forgot to name many who dropped by, jumped in, laid back, enjoyed the lake. All of whom I thoroughly

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Picture of Salley Knight

Salley Knight

Salley Knight is an American textile artist. She creates her art using ancient Japanese techniques of hand-dyeing on silk.