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satoyama

A new word for me – “satoyama.” I ran across it in an article: Revitalizing a Dying Region of Rural Japan with Art Satoyama refers to traditional rural landscapes, how they benefit and sustain...

constant buzzing

Contributing to unsettledness – I have my laptop set up in the front room, downstairs. There’s always a large fly in here. Buzzing. I don’t know if it’s the same fly every day or...

back, sketching

I’ve been home from India for over a month. Just starting to feel like I know what to do next. I signed up for a drawing class with Roz Stendhal. Her blog has been...

displaced, out of step

Feeling like I can’t keep up – displaced. Is there a corresponding word for out of step in time? Links to savor later: Dwelling with Place: Lorine Niedecker’s Ecopoetics The Art of Exploring: Flanerie...

“the winds”

I walked out of the building tonight about 7 pm. The wind was fresh and alive. The air was soft and room temperature. I felt like I was surrounded by air. It was delightful....

“the wisdoms…”

the wisdoms of the universes in a single string of letters A record of the 2013 International Pwoermd Writing Month I beliving in anthologies.

“the nest”

My sense of home has been challenged these past few days, working on getting my parents’ house ready to sell. I lived there six years from 7th grade through high school, and then summers...