Category: Sacred Lands
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Monday Morning

It’s a mostly cloudy morning after a rainy weekend. There is a distinct chill to the air and house, although it is not really cold. In fact, the weather seems to be on the mild side of seasonal norms. I imagine this past weekend was difficult for many of us. The government seems intent on…
Michael Watson PhD
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Thanksgiving Eve

We awoke to fading overnight rain. For a brief time the sly partially cleared revealing a lovely winterish sunrise. I had to go into my primary care office for a routine blood draw and joined what became a longish line waiting outside for the lab to open. Fortunately the morning is on the warm side…
Michael Watson PhD
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On “The Shapes of Native Nonfiction”

A bright, seasonably cool day. The stiff breezes of the past few days have finally subsided somewhat. Wait! As soon as I wrote this the wind picked up and is moving the mostly bare tree branches vigorously. I’ve been reading experimental essays by a host of Native American writers in Shapes of Native Nonfiction, edited…
Michael Watson PhD
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Deer In the Field

A seasonably warm day, pleasant enough that Nori spent twenty minutes on the porch. Here and there a few leaves cling to trees. From my window I can see determined reds among the scant dangling browns and tans. There are fewer berries on what’s left of the Poke Berry, just enough to entice the birds…
Michael Watson PhD