Tag: 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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Floors Are Hard!
Today dawned bright and clear, the trees shining orange and pink, and branches standing out with sharp clarity. A couple of days ago we had the season’s first light snow, initially sparking a discussion about whether the white stuff on the ground was snow or heavy frost, a conversation ended by many softly falling tiny…
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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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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,…
