“Artists, poets, whatever you want to call those people whose job is ‘making’ take in the commonplace and are forever recognizing it as worthwhile. I think I am always collecting in a way, walking down a street with my eyes open, looking through a magazine, viewing a movie, visiting a museum or grocery store. Some of the things I collect are tangible and mount into piles of many layers and when the time comes to use those saved images I dig like an archaeologist and sometimes find what I want and sometimes don’t.” 》Sister Corita Kent

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Diary 31

Sense inventory; a cultural audit; “I just took it all in, swam downriver on my own”

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Diary 30

”You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?” 》Friedrich Nietzsche

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Diary 29

Women of Allah; “crushed sage in the hand, the red hills, and the chorus of coyotes at sunset”

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Wombs & War

And it is my firm belief that the women who are already walking this earth should be the priority.

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Unbridled Beauty

…where babies swaddled in white cloths lie in rows of stainless steel bassinets.

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Diary 28

The long train home; a letter; two vases

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Diary 27

“sweat and bergamot, buckskin and lace;” lists for april; strong back, soft front, wild heart

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Diary 26

Screaming elegy; idyllwild man; taking a step backwards in order to move forwards

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Diary 25

Meditative act; "spaces of darkness in which to find & make meaning;" a soiled dove

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Diary 24

An injured buck; a dog’s protection; plant fossils

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Diary 23

Winter Solstice; black fawn; altar

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Diary 22

Elk ivories; a funeral; “animals can see through a veil that humans can’t”

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Diary 21

Escapism; poems by Pär Lagerkvist; “barbed nostalgia”

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Diary 20

Black rain, black wind, black heat…

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Diary 19

A playlist; “waded through the creek singing Pete Seeger’s, Waist Deep in the Big Muddy”; “magic in a brown bag”

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Diary 18

A cleansing rain; loom knitting; “I don’t know where elsewhere was, but it wasn’t "here.”

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Diary 17

Going rogue; a plethora of roman candles; “to just do and not think”

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Diary 16

Recalling summer in Illinois, late summer in Oregon.

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