Under Duress
It’s a good time to wonder what happens when something is under pressure long enough with no room to escape. Or rather, no room to transform into what it needs to be to withstand the pressure.

The Middle Distance
Change happens when you’re driving down the freeway and it happens when you’re in the shower and it happens when you put your phone facedown on the counter.
A Filthy Rulebreaker
I listened again, and thought – huh, it sounds so much like it’s breathing. I was off and running with thoughts about the earth taking breaths and how they were different in the winter and how those exhales were so much like…like the way horses sound in the morning. Like air moving through a snout. Huh, I thought again. The geysers sound like they’re breathing through snouts.

The Shifting Solstice
It’s almost like darkness is the anchor that roots us in a fuller appreciation of the light. Because without the lack of light, it’s harder to understand just how many bright minutes there are on June twenty first. When that day comes, we’ll have basketfuls of them and they will spill out onto the pavement and we might not even bother to pick them up. They will be pennies in a world of hundred dollar bills.