I’ve been home from Colorado for a couple of weeks now, and I still find myself thinking about mountains. For much of my visit, I felt oddly disoriented. East and west were little more than educated guesses; north and south had lost their certainty. Here, in Skagit County, Mount Baker is north. The Skagit RiverContinue reading “The Divide”
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The Hum of Becoming
There’s a particular kind of panic that whispers. It’s a humming, a buzz that digs into your psyche if you don’t stop it in time: you’re behind. It shows up while making coffee, while watering the houseplants, while thinking about what I should have done by now. It is persistent, subtle, and annoyingly convincing. AndContinue reading “The Hum of Becoming”
Each Voice Matters
We walk the wetland trail, my friend and I, bundled and mostly quiet. He is the kind of person who hears the world more precisely than I do. He knows birds the way some people know languages, through cadence, inflection, and a fluency that seems to bypass conscious thought. When he listens, it is withContinue reading “Each Voice Matters”