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Tim Van Deelen

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Rice and Raisins

In my family, we argue over the correct stuffing for the turkey. Among my earliest memories of Thanksgiving, is my dad, in his pajamas, spooning

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Impulse

My impulse to get up and leave surprised me. I’ve heard our communion liturgy a million times, but why thoughts to just walk away –

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Black Flag

A habitual early-riser, I often don’t sleep well in hotels, so I was up early doomscrolling pre-dawn. Given time zone differences, the European climate scientists

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Ripples

It’s all so familiar on a September Saturday morning. Up early, obligations to a student event, though I’d rather have the day to myself. Another

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Wolfy thing

Creation demands its wolves. I keep thinking this as I reflect on two, sort-of obscure anniversaries that surfaced recently. They’re both remembrances of extinctions. One

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Colors

Color doesn’t matter, I thought as I tied another one on. I convinced myself, tying trout flies back in grad school. But I can hear

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Growth – Economic and Otherwise

Each spring, I give a favorite lecture, an homage to a Belgian mathematician, Pierre François Verhulst. In two publications (1838 and 1847), Verhulst argued that

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Elise Joshi speaks up

I had another post in prep but I switched it up to go with this. This deserves to be amplified and it is so astonishingly

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Day 3

RIO (red, indigo, orange) did right by us. He’s a robust and feisty male piping plover and Vince, the Park Service, biologist heard him calling

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