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Timothy Van Deelen

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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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Closer Look

Nearly every culture that lives with cranes considers them sacred, and maybe it’s not too late for ours.

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Blossom and Rise

A friend asked me weeks ago now, “what can we do?” and I put him off, promising I’d think about it and write something. But

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Living Water

March 15 was the day the Wisconsin State Climatology Office declared as the official thaw date.

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Tawdry Kings

I’m here again because I’ve been coming to places like this since I was a boy and I still carry the things I’ve found.

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