A Shot of Joy

I feel so much tenderness toward these photos.

A View (2)

Maybe it’ll hold on.

“It’s a gift.”

There’s a certain amount of distance I need in order to extend compassion to myself.

Bring It On Home

A good day to do something I’ve been meaning to do for a while: shifting monthly donations from Portland-area organizations to ones in my hometown.

Commonplace

On “bits of the mind’s string too short to use, an indiscriminate and erratic assemblage with meaning only for its maker.”

A View…

…of somewhere I’ve been coming for a long, long time.

Brushpile

It turns out you can counteract a lot of “I Work on a Computer All Day” angst with nothing more than a pair of branch loppers and an hour on an overgrown hillside trail.