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Blog Posts

  1. Osprey on the Lake

    Seeing nature unfold before me.

  2. Local Library Programming

    Establishing intentional plans for personal enrichment.

  3. «A Poetry Handbook» by Mary Oliver

    A brief reflection on a #poetry #handbook that I just read.

  4. Prairie Poor

    A #poem reflecting on land and language.

  5. Inverness

    A #poem of #winter reflection, of painting a ceiling not in white but in a bold color, and a mind thus adrift.

  6. Serendipity and Verse

    It is through epics and poetry that I my home.

  7. Does One Call Oneself a Poet?

    A bit of introspection and a #haiku. In part a post to say I’m still here.

  8. Bolstering Against the Permeating LLM Language

    On being human, embracing the analogue, and working through private deep introspection.

  9. Fallacy of Record

    Exhuming a reflection I wrote in October around “leaving a record.”

  10. The Books of 2025

    Not all of the books of the year, but an overview of the ones that stuck out.