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The Clearing
What you find in the spaces between...
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Nature Turns
returning home at the still point of the year
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A full moon, a sunset, a city like an ocean, a sea of stars
Tokyo, you are beautiful
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The bath of a thousand bathers
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Put down the phone, pick up a pen
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Rivers without end
a confluence that gathers momentum
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Gathering raindrops, gathering thoughts
and gratitude for the life of my very first teacher
Nov 12, 2025
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Autumn in Japan
If you go down to the woods today...
Nov 5, 2025
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In Praise of Drawing
from Dark Mountain: Issue 28
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Oct 29, 2025
The weather inside
mizzle and fog, sunshine later
Oct 22, 2025
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To the Sea, From the Land
and coming to land through a sea of clouds
Oct 15, 2025
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An invisible sun
The light behind and in things
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Art in an Emergency
Artist Jenny Pope talks about finding resilience and buoyancy through making
Oct 1, 2025
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