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Timothy Van Deelen

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The Testimony of Mary

A young woman in a patriarchal culture in a homeland occupied by a hostile empire and its toadies.

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Cold and Clear

Our earliest understanding is a phenology. Days and seasons, stars and tides. Winter birds and warblers passing through. Green vestments becoming blue becoming white.

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Dystopia

There is nobility in studying Biology because it enables leadership and creativity needed for the stickiest questions humanity must face.

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Welcome to Gladstone, Michigan

I lived here for three winters, in a fish-camp cabin which sounds more romantic than it should. A humble tiny drafty old house near the

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Es ist genug

Professional research seems to favor technological solutions over behavioral (spiritual??) changes that may emerge as imperatives.

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Destiny as a Becoming

I tell my epiphany, how these trees rewired me. I thought I knew Michigan forests. On a whim, I jumped off I-75 one spring day

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Algorithm

The view is limited from the seat of a kayak. This lovely little river winds through a flood plain of Midwestern forests and forest openings

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Harm

Protecting the most vulnerable species from the finality of extinction has a unique gravity that is poorly addressed in regulatory language.

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