Time hasn’t felt right since 2020. My mind now tells me things only in reference to before or after the pandemic lockdown. BP or AP, if you will. And so, for the last 4 1/2 years, the seasons passed in strange loops. I can remember certain events in vivid detail, but never quite when they happened. Time… Continue reading A Calendar Made of Birds: Finding Time Again Through Journaling
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A Mostly No-Mow May
I don’t mow before at least the first week of May. It is my cardinal rule. Partly because the bees and other beneficial insects need time to wake, stretch their wings, and rise from their winter beds. Partly because I like letting the wildflowers, the tiny, scrappy ones the world tries so hard to ignore,… Continue reading A Mostly No-Mow May
Visitors in the Blackberry Bushes
Or: When the Bees Chose Me A heart-shaped swarm Tuesday morning, around 11:30, a strange shimmer came down the street. At first, I thought it was just debris, maybe grass clippings from the neighbor’s weedwhacker caught in a breeze. But as the swirl moved with an oddly intentional grace, and the light caught glints of… Continue reading Visitors in the Blackberry Bushes
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