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Daisy Parrotfish
SOMEWHERE IN THE reefy waters of the Indo-Pacific, a daisy parrotfish (Chlorurus sordidus) is feasting on coral. She crunches up the hard knobs of calcium carbonate with her tough beaklike teeth, Continue reading
Lay of the Land
Lay of the Land
The Extraordinary Disorder of Obsidian
RUNNING SOUTH of the turquoise eye of Mono Lake just east of the Sierra’s steep escarpment are hills that once hissed and groaned, gushed fountains of pumice and ash and sticky Continue reading
Lay of the Land
At the Gate
Wheelchairs in wild spaces shouldn’t be an anomaly some thirty years since the Americans with Disabilities Act. Continue reading
Lay of the Land
Adaptive Joy
Grief lives in the body; crip grief lives in the crip body. And I am working out my crip grief by moving in a crip way on this land, on this trike. Continue reading
Lay of the Land
A Drinkable Beauty
MY HOMETOWN of Bellingham, Washington, is a last corner of the continental United States, a final chew of land before the long drink of the Pacific. We’re bound to the west by Continue reading