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Life-Saving Windows
My bird collision monitoring route is a ten minute shuffle around one side of a building, the speed at which you’d search for lost keys in grass. Above us are floor-to-ceiling windows encircling the second floor, a feature that immerses the person looking out in the beauty and serenity invoked by the giant sequoias, cedars,…
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Jane
The day she died, the cashier at PCC asked me how my day was going. Welling up, I shook my head and shrugged away the question to block the tears. Someone I sought out for inspiration and hope, who by simply being alive brought me peace of mind, was gone. I typed in my PIN…
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Back to the Books
Is it delusional to go back to school at age 52? Is it naïve to re-enter the workforce at 54? As I begin a two-year plan in hopes of working in conservation and restoration, these questions play on repeat. Whenever I think, Sure, this school-to-work thing is totally going to work out, there’s a rustling sound that…
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Camp Med
By evening of my recent breakdown, my husband was duly concerned. I’d rarely shown such intense sadness, usually shaking it off with some distraction such as cleaning or running or … writing, which I had quit. So the next morning he surprised me with a kindhearted attempt to make me feel better. He booked a…
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Cozy Birds of a Feather
Despite the interior of the Doubletree near Sea-Tac airport evoking tones of brown-hued melancholy, I am rather fond of this hotel, particularly the labyrinthine wings flanked by trees and elevated so as to imitate a sort of boardwalk floating above the forest floor, river rock simulating water flow. The effect is of being immersed in…
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Hatching a New Start
I have heard that every writer has moments of despair regardless of which phase in their writing life they find themselves. They write and believe, write and believe, and then at some unforeseen moment, the time comes to throw the laptop across the room. I am no exception. The time came for me on a…
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