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You Are Standing in a Doorway: California, Fall 2020

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My back is to a life passed. A year, maybe more, in liminal space. Waiting. For a vaccine. For better therapeutics. For a political climate to shift. All the while, the actual climate turns against us. The waters rise in the East. Fires rage in the West. My back is to a life passed. Retirement, …

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Birding 101: the Dawn Chorus

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Dawn, Day Break, First Light. I’ve been reading these phrases my whole life. They are interchangeable and describe that hour or so of diffuse light as our place on earth rotates toward the sun, a period of increasing lightness while the sun still remains below our horizon. But it is there, the sun, and we …

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