Joy Is a Golden-crowned Sparrow

Joy Is a Golden-crowned Sparrow

My heart in hiding stirred for a bird. —Gerard Manley Hopkins, “The Windhover” It’s so predictable it’s almost funny. Almost. Every year, like clockwork, the Pacific Northwest changes from a sun-saturated wonderland of fragrant evergreens and sparkling sapphire waters...
Learning How to Die

Learning How to Die

All along, Thought I was learning how to take How to bend not how to break How to laugh not how to cry— But really I’ve been learning how to die. -Jon Foreman, Learning How to Die I held up the gingerbread patterned nail file I’d received in my Christmas...

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