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Our Butterfly Effect
We’re all doing the best we can with the information we have. Trying to be good citizens, neighbors, workers, parents, humans. So when we see what’s happening around the world and don’t know what to do about it, it can make us feel helpless. We’re already trying to be good at everything else! There’s no…
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The Salish Sea
What do you want to be when you grow up? When we answered this question as children, too young to calculate future expenses, did our answer actually represent our life’s true purpose? What we intrinsically cared most about, and therefore would feel the most fulfilled doing? If we answered comedian, did that mean our purpose was…
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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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