Category: Winter
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A Soggy Day
A soggy day. Not as windy as is usual for these storms, warmish, but very very wet. Nori the cat spent time out in the three season porch as the temperature is around 50F. When she came in she asked me to turn on the gas fireplace, then asked me to sit down in the…
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The Extractive Ideology of Settler-Colonialism
A chilly, damp morning. Crocuses are up in a few yards and a snowstorm may arrive Monday night. I’m in and out of the art studio and my sound and photo space, and continue to spend too much time sitting before a computer. This is at least partially due to my enrolling in the second…
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The Settler Colonialism of Climate Change
Today is a beautiful late March day in mid-February, with wide blue skies and temperatures, as they have much of the winter, running over 12 degrees above normal. We celebrated Valentine’s Day by going to a favorite informal restaurant by the water for lunch. We had dinner the other day with a much loved and…
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Winter Appears
It’s snowing, big soft flakes that melt when they hit the ground. The outside world smells cold and snowy, and the birds are quieter, their calls muted by the flakes. Buds are thickening on a few trees; with the changing climate it is difficult to know whether that is seasonal. It is noticeably colder today,…
