blogging as rhythm play
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Boulders
In the middle of August, having biked 45 kilometres to get to a Plant Walk at a cemetery at the edge of the Lanark Highlands, I decided to add half an hour to my loop to also go to a County Forest I’d spotted on the map. That place was what it was, not a…
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Rooted Wolves
In younger maturity this old maple tree, well over a metre across, was clearly an excellent climbing tree, even for the likes of humans, with many stout branches spreading wide. That’s how trees grow when the land around them is cleared. With a narrower crown still showing vigour above many of its no-longer-young offspring, this…
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Steps From Wet Ankles
Seasons cycle, and storms come. Trees rooted in soil that is dark muck between loose stones over bedrock carrying seeping groundwater to soil a bit lower, to true freshwater deciduous swamp forest — trees still on the verge of land, spongy land — don’t all get to stay fully upright their whole lives. As seen…
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Right Words Right Time
Can words voiced aloud arrive as birds do, Swoop to perfect perch on breeze-tossed branch As exact poise enfolds motion until launch again Greets air ever-changing to touch, with grace; Can mots juste walk in? Show up on a screen?
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The Telephone Game
Broken Telephone Pictionary is a hoot of a party game. The way I learned it, strict rules say that each of 5 to 8 people around a table draw a thumb-sized picture at the top of a sheet of paper of something they can see from where they are sitting, to start. Less strict, just…
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Meniscus, meet Wavelengths
Iridescence, the wavelength-thin sheen of oil kind, it looked like, but was this wavelength-thin water atop a feather atop surface tension at the edge of a vernal pool? I think so. I leaned over to lend shade and see what a camera could record. A hint of the magnificence.
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Just Morning
Can morning just be morning then, even in spring Unmolested by clock time and zones, scheduled in Disruptions, alarms, jump starts? Of course it can, Of course it is outside cities and their tributaries While rain’s rhythms like yawns live time that sings
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PSA: Resourcing For Health Before Viruses Come Around
Viruses don’t just mess with the integrity of a body, they weaken people. Can their spread be contained? Sometimes. Is there a role for vaccines? Yes, but they can’t do it all. Can people protect their baseline health so that that viruses don’t do as much damage? Definitely. And some of that is very straightforward,…
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What?
A toe dipped in chaos, are you crazy? Well, I may be, but if you think you’re not Soaking in it, in illimitable potential That floats all boats and also swimmers You, my friend, are misusing imagination