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Timothy Van Deelen

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About That Dillard Piece…

I am simply dumbfounded at the power of her imagination, making connections and challenging intuitions and making her readers see.

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Cedar House

My little cabin is being consumed by the understory minions. Moss grows on the old shingles. Part of me would stand aside and welcome them.

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Wren Pellets

High summer and the plant life here in the muggy Midwest is pumping with all abandon, turning sunlight, soil minerals, and atmosphere into plant tissues,

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Boundary Waters: A Love Song

The BWCAW is the most visited wilderness area in the system and most visitors are canoe trippers. The popular routes, ironically, can be busy places

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Nemesis Bird

Birders speak of “nemesis birds,” birds that one, by rights, should have seen given their efforts and outings, but birds that evade them nonetheless. Often

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Campfires

Lent begins in darkness and asks people of faith to search and sit with it, to sit with the uncertainty and longing — and if

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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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