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You only have to let the soft animal of your body/love what it loves.

25 January 201024 December 2022 joannemerriam

Read “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver.

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Previous: There were at least twenty of the ads, and for all it seemed they were doing their damndest to step lightly, her red and yellow tulips were completely trampled. Marie had stubbornly continued to cultivate those flowers despite the certainty that she ought to be using the gardening space, and the captured rainwater, to grow food.
Next: Suddenly the thrushes sang around her in upward spirals, psalmic, glorious sounds. Dragonflies with wings veined like cathedral windows followed them. And then with a rush, all the birds of the air flew above.

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Aether and Ego Aether and Ego

How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens

The Museum of All Things Awesome and that Go Boom The Museum of All Things Awesome and that Go Boom

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I acknowledge that I live in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq nation. This territory is covered by a series of treaties of peace and friendship which recognized Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) title and established rules for an ongoing relationship between nations. We are all treaty people. As a guest on this land, I affirm that I have a duty to be mindful of my environmental impact and to reflect on and hold colonial systems accountable.

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