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Another year has twined away, unrolled and dropped across nowhere like a flung banner painted in gibberish.
— Annie Dillard, <i>Pilgrim at Tinker Creek</i><br/>

Feet up on a snowbank, watching the birds hang glide in the sky.

I saw two blue herons in the marsh this morning. 🌾

In Chester: Coffee ice cream, Oregon Trail cookie

In which, I learn how to keep a fireplace burning, immediately feeling like the steward of the sacred flame.