Wild and Domestic
I. GARY SNYDER SAID that we know our minds are wild because of the difficulty of making ourselves think what we think we ought to think. Continue reading
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In Real Life
FLORIDA SUMMER is in full swing when my mother gets her first smartphone. Palms sway and a fluorescent pool gleams beyond the porch where we sit, she trying to decipher hee Continue reading
The Sky Knows No Borders
LAST AUGUST, I drove up to Northern California with three young Guatemalans and a crew of Latinx filmmakers to witness the solar eclipse. Mount Shasta supplied the backdrop. Continue reading
Salmon Homecoming
TODAY, I’m watching salmon mating. On the banks of the Sandy River, the naturalist explains that I am looking at a female salmon building a nest, but all I see is Continue reading
Middle of Nowhere
THERE IS NO ROAD, hasn’t been a road since Gerlach, that crust of a town where we turned from pavement to playa, to hairline-fractured hardpan Continue reading