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Leaving / Imprints

Mom spreads maps over the dining room table. They’re oldish, not ancient, but the home I see in them is not the home I know. They are all of Colorado—mostly cities at the nexus of Rocky Mountains and High Plains, 40, 50, 60 years ago. The outpost of Ward, a funky old mining town up […]

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Watch the grass grow

On a spring day three years ago, the river climbed out of its banks. Unseasonable heat and heavy rain had hit the snowpack high in the mountains, sending a winter’s worth of meltwater in a pulse down the tributaries, into the mainstem, and spilling across the valley floor. Work seemed unlikely under these circumstances, so […]

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The Harrier

If you liked this post, I hope you’ll consider becoming a subscriber to Terra Affirma, the weeklyish newsletter where I publish my comics poems and illustrated essays in hopes of building a new home for the illustrated column of the same name that I used to write and paint for YES! Magazine. Paid subscribers help […]

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« Le silence serait une trahison » : le cardinal Robert Sarah appelle les chrétiens « à ne pas se taire devant une guerre déclarée par les puissances médiatiques et législatives »

« L’Église est mal comprise parce qu’on la juge à partir de catégories profanes. Elle sera toujours signe de contradiction. Nous n’avons pas besoin d’une institution mondaine de plus »

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Passages from unknowable stories

If you liked this post, I hope you’ll consider becoming a subscriber to Terra Affirma, the weekly newsletter where I publish my comics poems and illustrated essays in hopes of building a new home for the illustrated column of the same name that I used to write and paint for YES! Magazine. Paid subscribers help […]

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