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We have been busy this morning: I baked a pie, Gary did laundry, we picked up the mail, I read aloud, but first thing this morning we enjoyed a nearly a three-hour walk. We walked from spring right into summer at 8:54AM. Today is the first day of summer and the morning sky showed cobblestones…
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Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901 New York, NY 10038 info@poets.org Dear Friend, Please join us in congratulating our Chancellor Joy Harjo on being named our nation’s newest Poet Laureate! Harjo was elected an Academy Chancellor earlier this year and received the Academy’s Wallace Stevens Award for proven mastery in the art…
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It was probably 1973 and Gary and I were managing the apartment building while we were students at the University of Washington. I was just twenty years old when we had dinner with the owners of a cat we liked, Slump. Slump’s people were educated and had traveled and in the course of the meal I…
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via Grand Canyon will soon be a dark sky park
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The fathers in my life have all been good men. I am grateful, too for the father-in-law who was so kind to me. Not everyone is so fortunate. These men did not ever, so far as I know (and I have always paid attention), abused people, picked fights, or assumed they were entitled simply because…
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Oregon is home to the City of Roses, Portland, where there is an official test garden and several beautiful public rose garden parks. My grandmother had roses planted along her driveway, mostly memorably Oklahoma, a deep dark red. Here on the coast, however, salt and wind and cloudy days are a bit of a challenge…
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We all have our habits. My husband and I both love books and tend to fill shelves. Beyond that we have other things, too much of other things. When I spread all my Koigu yarn and a handful of handspun skeins out in order to get them sorted back into bins by hue, he took…
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“Behind me, a filled room of 9/11 first responders, and in front of me, a nearly empty Congress,” Stewart said. John Stewart spoke to many empty seats in a House Committee about the needs of first responders. All these years later and the men and women who responded “in five seconds” to a disaster: “I’m awfully…
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I discovered yesterday that Tin House is closing after this month’s issue. I already knew about Glimmer Train, Shimmer, and the end of Apex except as a publisher of books. These were all excellent publications. The New York Times is only writing about Tin House, because the founding editors are in New York? Sometimes I…
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“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and…
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