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Godspeed
I’ve been hearing, again, the call from the thick-walled silence.
Dec 27, 2025
burrowing
escaping the shallows for deeper earth
Dec 20, 2025
what we keep
A few weeks ago I was contacted by an editor to write a piece for a publication.
Dec 9, 2025
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the anti-vaxxers
Dec 7, 2022
the loyalty of grief
Jan 7, 2023
sacrosanct suds
Dec 21, 2022
humankeeper
Nov 22, 2025
woven
Nov 2, 2022
decisions and cake
Nov 26, 2022
a sovereign heart
I decided I was going to give my presentation ad hominem.
Dec 3, 2025
9:38
audio: a sovereign heart
Comments and written version of this essay can be found on the homepage or via your handy dandy inbox.
Dec 3, 2025
humankeeper
I saw a duck standing on a rock beside the lake yesterday.
Nov 22, 2025
14:26
audio: humankeepers
The full essay with additional images and comments can be found on the homepage or in your inbox.
Nov 22, 2025
the air we breathe
I had a dream a few nights ago that my daughter, Mila, was a baby again.
Nov 8, 2025
10:07
audio: the air we breathe
Full essay with images and commenting is available on the main text essay.
Nov 8, 2025
books we love
It’s hard to believe that it was over two years ago that I put out my first call to share children’s books you all love.
Nov 1, 2025
a net for the fleeting
When our youngest daughter, Mila, was still quite young, around eight or nine years old, it was her job to filter the cow’s milk.
Oct 25, 2025
ego rides shotgun
Sometimes I marvel at the young woman I was.
Oct 18, 2025
Slowdown Farmstead
Slowdown Farmstead
Cultivating authenticity in a synthetic world. Ruminations on ancestral food, healthy living, family, homesteading, connection to the natural world, life, death and this radical little thing called "sovereignty".

Slowdown Farmstead

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