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Unpunctual in 2024

January 4, 2025

“Was everything beautiful so bold?” she asks. And always the answer is yes. There is always a daring to beauty, a perfection of act lifted whole from...

Genesis in January

January 10, 2024

It is a strange feeling to be utterly dependent for everything on the help of others. But in any case, one learns in such times to be grateful and hopefully...

November 17, 2023

Mother I never knew, every time I see the ocean, every time — ~Kobayashi Issa~ Happy (mid) November (at this point)! Sorry for the delay. As Mainers like to...

Bitter Sweet September

October 4, 2023

Open your eyes, Dream but don't guess. Your biggest surprise Comes after Yes. Muriel Rukeyser Happy October! The road has officially called us home! Betty...

August Apprisals

September 8, 2023

One of the main reasons wealth makes people unhappy is that it gives them too much control over what they experience. They try to translate their own...

Jumbo July Mumbo

Sometimes I was grateful because I knew I ought to be, sometimes because I wanted to be, and sometimes a sweet thankfulness came to me on its own, like a...

June Bug Jollifications

...and I was rescued by a revelation so tiny it would take a crazy and holy attention to see it as such. ~Christian Wiman~ A happy July to you all! I might...

May Mumbo Jumbo

Emptiness of time despite it being filled—"Fulfilled" time is very different love ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer, LPP~ Happy June from Bozeman/Sidney, I'm currently...

April Ameliorations

(Sent on May 8, 2023) Some people are more certain of everything than I am of anything. ~Robert Ruben~ Greetings and May tidings from Bozeman, I realized...

(Sent on April 2, 2023) Yet at this point it becomes quite clear that only an act of liberation, not instruction, can overcome stupidity." ~Deitrich...

February Frenzy

(Sent on February 20, 2023) Greetings, A happy Quinquagesima to you all. (Though you'll probably get this tomorrow, so . . . Happy Monday!) I have been...

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