Category: Home Work
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Water | East Wenatchee, WA | February 2019 Taoists find numerous life lessons in water. It seeks low spaces, avoiding acclaim. It flows around obstacles, yet dissolves boulders. It pools serenely, surface like glass, awaiting the
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Camp Chair | Wenatchee, WA | May 2019 The history of fold-up camp chairs seems darned short. Just a few years ago, a smattering of camp chairs dotted a few backyards. A month later, they had taken over the world with dozens of brands and scores of designs. Now everybody has
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View Through Screen | Asheville, NC | April 2019 Don’t undervalue the screened porch. Sure, we appreciate that it lets air in and keeps bugs out. But the best benefit is how it softly filters the outside world. Everything — dogwood blooms, bird chirps, kid laughter — seems slightly distant, blurred or muffled. Perfect. Now…
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Tulip, Study #5 | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2019 Flowers wallow in attention. After all, they’re the flashy wrappings of the tulip’s sex organs. All lushness and lust. So I felt bad ignoring the plant’s workhorse systems, the leaves and roots that provide the food and nutrients that make those beautiful blooms. It’s a…
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Tulip, Study #3 | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2019 I often forget about the delicacy of the world. Driving a car, living in a house, walking concrete streets — all dull my awareness of Nature’s exquisite workmanship. How and why could a tulip’s complexity emerge from a seed? Where is its programming? What directs…
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Eggs | East Wenatchee, WA | March 2019 The chicken came first, in case you’re wondering. Their reptilian ancestors — yep, our feathered friends were once scaly lizards — most likely reproduced through viviparity, or giving live birth to their young. That biological trend advanced to ovoviviparity (internal eggs) and, much later, into
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Flashlight | Twisp, WA | April 2019 Ah, there it is. I’d searched drawers, shelves and closets to find the flashlight. All along, it stood at attention in plain sight. Dead batteries meant a trip to the hardware store, where I waited in line behind a man who’d just returned from the Oregon Coast. We…
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White Bowls | Twisp, WA | February 2019 The bowl doesn’t struggle with purpose. Its emptiness awaits
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Gowns | Vancouver, WA | March 2019 Can a wedding nowadays be simple? Ceremonies for even everyday folks are often drenched in drama and excess. Emotions run high over details of the ring, dress, shoes, cake, bouquet, seating charts and — what are we forgetting? — oh yeah, the groom. Brides want celebrity treatment (“This…
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Rainbow | East Wenatchee, WA | February 2019 It’s possible my foot creates its own weather. Cool air rising from the floor swirls with warmer currents circulating around the porous woolen sock to induce a prismatic effect that
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