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Creative risk evangelist, errant #flaneur, serial optimist, wordsmith. I ♥︎ to wa/onder, #carpemidlife, tele+H2O #ski, #doodle, #sail, #cycle, garden, learn...

 Santa Fe, NM + Essex, NY
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"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art." — Carrie Fisher
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“I love you. I miss you. Please get out of my house.” poets.org/poem/i-love-you-i-… So damned good, Donika Kelly!
I love you. I miss you. Please get out of my house.

I love you. I miss you. Please get out of my house.

Nothing today hasn’t happened before:

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poets, it is not enough to say it is a broken world. to lament the fact. no, name who has broken it—who is, right now, breaking it. and imagine another world. sing of that. and fight for it
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In the months leading up to his sister’s death, poetry became a “secret talisman” for @kjavadizadeh. yalereview.org/article/kamra…
Kamran Javadizadeh: "Ahead of Time"

Kamran Javadizadeh: "Ahead of Time"

"Before a person dies, you talk to them. They die, and you still want to talk to them."

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I wrote about my sister, and poetry, and grieving ahead of time. yalereview.org/article/kamra…
Kamran Javadizadeh: "Ahead of Time"

Kamran Javadizadeh: "Ahead of Time"

"Before a person dies, you talk to them. They die, and you still want to talk to them."

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Let loose the birds!
Dr. Maya C. Popa (@MayaCPopa) profile pictureDr. Maya C. Popa@MayaCPopa30 May 2023
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Almost all of the windows and doors are installed (offering a first glimpse of the icehouse’s more porous rehabilitation.) #historicrehab #icehouse rosslynredux.com/fenestrated…
Fenestrated Facades

Fenestrated Facades

It’s time for an icehouse window installation update. I’m pleased to announce fenestrated facades on all four sides! Aside from window and door trim, three out of four elevations — east (above),...

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Why is Tanglefoot Effective? rosslynredux.com/why-is-tang…
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Poetry of Earth rosslynredux.com/poetry-of-e…
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Cucumber Plants rosslynredux.com/cucumber-pl…
Cucumber Plants

Cucumber Plants

One of the most refreshing midsummer garden staples is the cucumber. Cuke. Cucumber. Refreshing no matter what you call it. I think we’re just about ready to start transplanting our spring-start...

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I just invested in @drinkvolley on @joinrepublic because #glutenfree and #puravida and #tequila and women owned and it’s an opportunity to help good change happen! republic.com/volley/i/kmotz7… #joinrepublic
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Time to Harden Off Veggie Plants rosslynredux.com/time-to-har…
Time to Harden Off Veggie Plants

Time to Harden Off Veggie Plants

Gardening is a bit of a balancing act. And a gambling act! So many variables: spring climate conditions, high tunnel preparation, readiness of transplants,… And the exuberance of gardening after...

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Easter Color rosslynredux.com/easter-colo…

Easter Color

Here is a watercolor tribute to these brilliant wild neighbors brightening our day with their own unique Easter color.

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66% Done, 33% To Go

66% Done, 33% To Go

This is my 243rd Rosslyn update in daily succession. It completes an 8-month streak of daily old house journaling, the 2/3 mark in my quest to post every day for one year. I marked an earlier...

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Elk Green Chile Stew rosslynredux.com/elk-green-c…
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Perspective vs. Nostalgia rosslynredux.com/perspective…
Perspective vs. Nostalgia

Perspective vs. Nostalgia

I am not quite sure where I belong but I have always been engaged with where I am. I like to think this gives me both a resistance to nostalgia and a breadth of perspective but I could be wrong. —...

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Saturday Snow Day rosslynredux.com/saturday-sn…
Saturday Snow Day

Saturday Snow Day

No progress on the icehouse project today. None. By design. And by the benevolence of mother nature. Today we celebrated a Saturday snow day! Although Saturdays and Sundays are usually rest days for...

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Genre Fluid rosslynredux.com/genre-fluid…
Genre Fluid

Genre Fluid

Today I offer you a quick follow-up to my February 4, 2023 post, “Genre Resistance“. In diving a little deeper into the genre fluidity of Rosslyn Redux (in general) and redacting Rosslyn in particu...

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Cross-Country Skiing rosslynredux.com/cross-count…
Cross-Country Skiing

Cross-Country Skiing

What is the cross-country skiing equivalent of schussing down a powdery piste? If it exists — some etymologically Nordic, onomatopoeicly swooshy reference for scissoring smoothly across a snowy...

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Another Nival Homecoming rosslynredux.com/nival-homec…
Another Nival Homecoming

Another Nival Homecoming

Back for anothernival homecoming.Fluttering flurriesobscuring sunset,muting day to night, ground mounding, roundingwith fresh fallen snow.The sound of no sound,snowflakes silencing,softening contou...

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