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The Morning Starts Before the Sun Rises

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Field Note: Embodying My Life. You know me. As you wish.

Frog fish. Flying spider. Flying squirrel. Platypus. Sometimes judged as compromised little things simply because they defy categories. They are strangely beautiful to me. Funny how others see them. Adaptations to uncertainty seem right to me.

D Van Ness 10/21/26 D Van Ness 10/21/26

Field Note: Inhabiting the Good Life

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Field Note: There She Is

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Field Note: Sailing On

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Field Note: Losing My Religion, and No, I do not want it back…

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Field Note: A Cherished Autumn Evening

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Stepping Out at 5 am Before Dawn

Grateful I opened my eyes and gazed long enough to recognize something special was going on in the sky. Like the meteor shower. Like a comet. Like a harvest moon. Sometimes we sleep through it. Sometimes we’re too distracted. This morning, things aligned just right and so did I.

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A Perfectly Held Morning

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Pockets of Freedom, Encounters with Agitation

Not mine. I let go.

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Field Note: Parenting in the Wild

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Choosing to Grow

The difference between Choice and Acceptance is slight. I radically accept what I did not choose. And that is brining me peace.

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Field Note: Growing Where I’m stuck

Maybe it is a case of the blahs or whatevers, but whatever it is, it is what it is, and I can find peace in it.

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POEM: When You Know, You Know

Early autumn. When you know you know you know. You see it in the light. You hear it in the cricket chirps. You taste and smell it. We’ve stepped over. Finally. To fall.