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Crop Cellars | Quincy, WA | October 2019 You drove for two hours without the ping of curiosity that makes these jaunts worthwhile. So you did “seeing” exercises: Sought contrast (light or dark), pursued patterns (repetition or configuration) and cleared your mind of expectations. You relaxed into yin, became receptive. When the tug of engagement…
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Roasted Veggies | East Wenatchee, WA | October 2019 One of cooking’s many delights is the near-magical transformation of the food itself. It could be the closest we come to alchemy and its search for elixirs to enrich and extend human life. For example, roasting caramelizes the sugars in plant fibers to sweeten even the…
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Bug Buffet | Spokane, WA | September 2019 Ravens are clever rascals. They think beyond instinct and routine to see opportunities missed by feathered friends. From high above, they use their ample shadows to scare smaller birds away from scattered seed. They eat discarded fries warmed on hot asphalt before those tossed in cool grass.…
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Passageway | Spokane, WA | September 2019 Certain places today have the feel of timeworn whereabouts — as if they belonged to the distant past. Step into a quiet plaza, under a shaded portico or through a rustic passageway, and you can sometimes sense a shift in the solidity of the real, a difference in…
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Web | Spokane, WA | September 2019 “This we know: the Earth does not belong to man. Man belongs to the Earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a
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Tree and Sky | Moses Lake, WA | September 2019 That old maple in your backyard might be making clouds, reports Popular Science magazine. Apparently, trees emit vapors that get cooked by cosmic rays (yes, from the void of space) that transform the woodsy emissions into aerosols, which are the seeds of cloud formation. Decades…
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Petal | East Wenatchee, WA | September 2019 Flora #3 | Back in fifth grade, the first guy at our school to ever own an electric guitar became very popular. For two days I followed him around because, well, only rock stars had electric guitars. But then Katherine, the most beautiful and mature girl in…
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Branch and Stem | East Wenatchee, WA | September 2019 Flora #2 | I don’t know how we connect, but we do. Maybe we’re all suspended in an emulsion — God, Tao, Mystery, Spirit or Love — that promotes contact. Maybe each of us is an expression of the force that spins galaxies and turns…
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Succulent | Conway, AR | September 2019 Flora #1 | A young woman at a nearby table talked on her phone as if I couldn’t hear her. “Oh my God, there’s this old guy, like, he’s right here, right in front of me, taking pictures of a stupid houseplant. Can you, like, imagine? It’s just…
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Peaks | Washington Pass, WA | September 2019 Last week I joined two bus loads of German tourists to watch in reverence as sunbeams played across the face of the Liberty Bell Group. (That’s Liberty Bell Mountain on the right, Early Winters Spires on the left.) It’s not easy to muffle 120 chittering travelers —…
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