Category: Stories
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Join the Conversation

Have letters, brief videos, or artwork to share in these troubled times? Join the conversation at Journeys! We’ve fallen on hard times and people in the U.S., and the world, are deeply divided from one another. This blog is a place for conversation between artists, persons with disability, and others who want to further dialog…
Michael Watson PhD
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Raptor

A stormy sky morning, following a night of sleet, snow, and freezing rain. Now the temperature has risen above freezing so the trip to the office should be passable. Mornings come much earlier now. We’ve gained more than 90 minutes of morning daylight since the solstice. Soon sap will begin rising in the maple trees…
Michael Watson PhD
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The Stories that Guide Us
I awoke from a night filled with dreams to a day of broken overcast and seasonal chill. The late January light is much diminished by cloud and the wane sun throws no shadows. There are narratives among Native people that we are living in the fifth or sixth iteration of the world. Not unlike the…
Michael Watson PhD
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The Resilience of Stories
A lovely, snow-covered morning. The woods are lovely and dark, and highlighted by the intense white of newly fallen snow; not much snow mind you, just enough to coat the trees. Ours is a remnant forest so it is not deep; there are just enough trees to support hermit thrushes. Under the snow, a layer…
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