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Writer & botanist motivated by love for this living earth. My words & images aim to restore our health & wholeness, and help us be our best & kindest selves.

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sunrise slides downhill
flicker calls, “wicka! wicka!
rousing day--and me
I take a dawn ramble before work, nurturing my inner self. That's "sky before screens," meaning get outside into the real world before turning to your devices. Amen. #haiku #ranchlife #getoutside #wyoming

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23 May

night-clouds leaked
wet clumps of silent snow
surprise spring blanket

We need the moisture, I reminded myself as I swept heavy snow from the steps of the dining hall at 6:30 am. I can feel the soil inhaling the wet (my skin too!). #haiku #springsnow #ranchlife #wyoming

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22 May

Denver-area peeps! Please join me and memoirist Kat Wilder, plus other nonfiction finalists for the Colorado Book Awards reading at BookBar next Friday, May 27th at 7 pm. Big thank you to @cohumanities & BookBar for sponsoring the finalist reading series! https://coloradohumanities.org/event/colorado-book-awards-general-nonfiction-creative-nonfiction/

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22 May

dawn draws orange stripes
painting day with tropical light
inside, heaters creak
The Guy left at six to drive to Colorado; I'm off to clean the building we call the Living Room, where seminar groups gather. Just another day on the ranch.... #haiku #wilderness #ranchlife #wyoming

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21 May

sagebrush bluebells nod
waiting for winter to pass
guzzling snow
We woke to snow this morning, not really a surprise, but a little hard on the migrating songbirds & hummingbirds to find themselves in winter again. Such is spring at 8,000 feet elevation in the northern Rockies....

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20 May

magpies squawk at dawn
Middle Mountain dons new snow
wind a keen knife
And now it's snowing. Welcome to spring in the Rockies!
#haiku #ranchlife #Wyoming

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19 May

wind howls up valley
galloping trees, slamming buildings
phlox still blooms
The wind roared all night, the noise of its passing washing over us, & then receding before the next wave. It was a reminder of how powerful earth's systems are. Yet these phlox flowers are open to life.

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