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She Asks for Your Tears, Not Your Toiling.
Soil is the co-relationship of matter, form, and bounded purpose, or creation, that works in the local place, that is known in and only by the local place, and that...
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Earthen Exam
Often, Earth throws diamonds and gold up from her womb as an experiment, to see what our species will do. Cut and color combine clearly under her ultimate heat and...
The Cacophony of Roots and Rise
The day. The morning. The dancers. The dance. We—the stillness, the verve, the cacophony of roots and rise of reclamation and rest—dance.
Why Big Publishers Have Sales Departments
“What were they like, grandpa?” They will ask as they bounce on our knees or maybe they will ask as they kneel at our graves. “They were profitable.” We will...
How I finished my new book
But it is the numerical reality of my techno-social platforms that stand stalwart against publishing. Today, it seems, it matters more who you are than what you can do, can give.
Seeing Our Gods As Ourselves and Not As They Are
Do not look to God to find yourself. Thank the gods, they stand above this world so that they can come into us, animate us, save us, and help us,...
Imbolc, Publishing, and The Coming of Robins
One publisher responded, “This may be one of the finest written manuscripts we have yet received,” but then did not invite me to publish because I have a mere 1,500...
Shakespeare, Sonnets, and Stewardship
Life is the conjoining of the old and the new—new species, or maybe old species made new in its specific surfacing—but so also is art.
She Asks for Your Tears, Not Your Toiling.
Soil is the co-relationship of matter, form, and bounded purpose, or creation, that works in the local place, that is known in and only by the local place, and that...