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An Admonition
“On the morning I left him for home, we did talk. About Donald Trump. Not at length: Dad tires easily. But the news coverage of Trump had clearly shaken him. The open departures…
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Of Nostalgia & Going Sideways Beautifully
“There were fishing folk online, and their love of and longing for the boats and the water was palpable and poetic. What little I knew of tug crews from my early life had…
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Recollections of a Child from the First Nuclear Age
“A regular camera shutter tripped at the initiation of a nuclear blast would deliver only a negative, assaulted by light so overwhelming that all detail is annihilated, leaving pure dark. Images of nuclear…
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Easter Out of Season
“Conviviality: the word is born of the marriage of con and vivere, ‘with’ + ‘live.’ Quam ad convivendum? How can we beckon, hold, live with and for each other in the face of…
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Next Year’s Country, Last Year’s Dreams (Chapter 4: The Plains Series)
“For whatever reason, hearing and seeing snow geese that afternoon triggered something. Perhaps I recognized in that sighting something iconic about prairie life. It felt like I was granted a signal that I…
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Reason’s Ghosts: The Settling & Unsettling of The Plains (Chapter 2: The Plains Series)
“On the 18th of December, 1635, François Derré, sieur de Gand, Commissary-General of the Hundred Associates (the trading and colonization company of New France), went ‘to the Cabins of the Savages’ to give…
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Forgotten Commonwealths: Agrarian Legacies & Lessons (Chapter 3: The Plains Series)
“These developments are driven by dreams—of energy independence, economic recovery, political advantage, and profit. They coexist or clash with other dreams, some of which are born of recent concerns: food security, sustainable agriculture,…
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Dreams in a Sliver of Time: Plains Songs (Chapter 1: The Plains Series)
“These developments are driven by dreams—of energy independence, economic recovery, political advantage, and profit. They coexist or clash with other dreams, some of which are born of recent concerns: food security, sustainable agriculture,…
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Forgotten Commonwealths: Agrarian Legacies & Lessons
“These developments are driven by dreams—of energy independence, economic recovery, political advantage, and profit. They coexist or clash with other dreams, some of which are born of recent concerns: food security, sustainable agriculture,…
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Reason’s Ghosts: The Settling & Unsettling of The Plains
“On the 18th of December, 1635, François Derré, sieur de Gand, Commissary-General of the Hundred Associates (the trading and colonization company of New France), went ‘to the Cabins of the Savages’ to give…