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Luminescence | East Wenatchee, WA | May 2020 This fetch ball glows in the dark, but our dog doesn’t give a damn. He can spot a tossed no-glow ball in a yard lit only by starlight. We humans, however, find such radiance absolutely amazing. The ball’s luminescent material somehow traps photons and slowly releases them.…
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Light and Shadow | East Wenatchee, WA | May 2020 “Within everyone there is light and shadow, good and evil, love and hate. In order to be truthful, you must embrace your total being. A person who exhibits both
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Place to Ponder | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2020 Ducks always seem a bit self-absorbed. They curb their emotions: No high fives, victory dances or other exuberant displays. Sometimes in a flock they’ll quack displeasure — “Webbed feet! Is anything more disgusting?” — but otherwise they’re unflappable. This particular duck, deep in thought, stood…
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Thistle | Entiat, WA | May 2020 Comfort lies in the natural order. This whirl of uncertainty and helplessness quiets in Mother’s hand. Despite our fears, her ancient patterns persist — sunrise, jet stream, snowmelt, apple blossoms, ants marching with
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View | Wenatchee, WA | May 2020 Who needs the Grand Canyon when you’ve got South Wenatchee? Nowadays tidy houses on tree-lined streets are spectacular enough. In fact, their mundaneness is their magnificence. Their normalcy, their grounding, has emerged as our best
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Backyard | Wenatchee, WA | April 2020 It’s clear, but really not so clear, that in this time of distancing we don’t perceive the whole picture. Signals we use to decipher moods and personalities are veiled behind masks or too distant to detect. Digital gatherings (think Zoom and FaceTime) filter voices and emotions crucial to…
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Empty Road | East Wenatchee, WA | May 2020 Whoever thought we might miss traffic? In recent weeks I’ve heard people speak wistfully of the stop-and-go and bumper-to-bumper as measures of human vitality. I sympathize, sure, but am headed in a different direction. For me, the near-disappearance of traffic has been a cause for happy…
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Sunrise Doves | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2020 The cloud over public mingling — talking, touching, partaking — has partially eclipsed our brilliance. Masks hide smiles and mute voices. Distance weakens the gravitational pull of shared experience. We still get goofy, excited, worried and sad, but many of us do it now in separate…
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Spring | Wenatchee, WA | April 2020 “At last came the golden month of the wild folk — honey-sweet May — when the birds come back, and the flowers and leaves come out, and the air is full of
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Unmade Bed | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2020 Things Around the House | Some people put great pride in making their bed each morning. But doesn’t an unmade bed speak of mystery? Those twisted blankets helped transport you to another reality, Dreamtime, where parallel lives unfolded in incredible detail. I try to read wrinkled…
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