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Apr 5, 20211 min read
The Day’s Delight: Wind’s in the East
The damp in the air on a walk after work. The long light evening. The warmth layered with waves of cold coming off the melting snowbanks...
Apr 4, 20212 min read
The Day’s Delight: Painted Ladies
I took a walk in the woods by myself today. The river ran below me, loud at the cliff and muted in the trees. Gullies gurgled with the...
Apr 2, 20211 min read
The Day’s Delight: Cooking Sap
Alchemy al fresco: three pans simmering in three shades of shimmering bronze over an iron stove fed with inch-and-a-half thick kindling,...
Mar 26, 20211 min read
The Day’s Delight: Red Willow Stars
She told me: This is a combination of Dakota and Aanishinabe beadwork designs. See this part? These are two stars, and when they line up...
Mar 20, 20211 min read
The Day’s Delight: Melt
I walked on a forest road today. I had to turn around and search for it– I had expected to see a wet-but-bare dirt road, forgetting that...
Mar 12, 20211 min read
The Day’s Delight: Daffodils
“The daffodils are coming up in my side yard,” she said. “I keep piling more leaves on top of them– it’s too soon!” We’re all daffodils,...
Feb 28, 20211 min read
The Day’s Delight: The Course
I’m pretty sure, in theory, ships can ride the wind almost completely keeled over. I imagine an experienced sailor can make a dance of...
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