For a few months now, alongside my job, I’ve been taking some botany and natural resources classes at Oregon State University (through their E-campus system, that is, which is fully remote and asynchronous, which is how it plays nicely with full-time work). What that means, blogging-wise, is that you can …
… you know what I miss these days? This is going to sound stupid, but I really miss seeing my breath billow around me in the cold. I hadn’t realized that that’s such a simple winter-exercise joy for me, but it really is. These days, if I see my breath …
Is it possible that winter sunrises are just more dramatic than any other season? Certainly one of you out there knows the science of this, and I welcome your insights. (For realz, please tell me what you know about this.) But I swear, the sunrises this late fall and early …
I thought of this poem, which I read once upon a time who knows how long ago and had to go questing for again in a ridiculous internet search (thanks Poetry Foundation!) because it seems right in line both with what I wrote last and also with how it’s hard …
