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June 2022

May 2022

Identifying the problem
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April 2022

March 2022

A Sense of Place
Building a framework
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Giant rodents and freezer burn
I have a confession the likes of which would make my mother proud. The majority of my freezer is now full of food instead of pieces of wood, deer parts…
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Sanctuary
I never imagined this newsletter to feel as if it’s becoming a crisis management tool, but I have a knack for interesting timing. I apologize to anyone…
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Just some Theta waves, please.
I’ve wrestled internally for days about what to post for the interlude between essays this week. Everything I want to talk about turns into paragraph…
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February 2022

The Ghosts of Dead Coyotes (Part 2)
The coyotes rolled into town in the previous essay: spoon lickers, sandwich eaters, general usurpers; picnic ruiners. I said, well, it’s pretty much…
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Respite
The man who has many answers is often found in the theaters of information where he offers, graciously, his deep findings. While the man who has only…
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The Ghosts of Dead Coyotes
I woke up one morning not long ago to rapid-fire gun shots every 7 minutes. Gun fire is not abnormal here, but the regularity of the shots so early in…
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Welcome to the Forest.
This is The Forest of Hollow Bones, a newsletter about Handcraft, Land and Messy People.
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