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SSCS 01: Installment 27 of 31

SSCS 01: Installment 27 of 31

Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 27 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… And then, abruptly, she realizes that she can hear the dervish skirling swelling and fading, and swelling again, in time with a great heartbeat.  With this, the…

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Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2023 week 26

Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2023 week 26

See Previous | See Next This week my garden is looking just right for wild, rambling, misty mornings.  With mosquitos.  But ignore the mosquitos.  It’s much more romantic without the mosquitos. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years confirms that it’s definitely the season for summer lushness. Looking back 2-4 weeks and 2-4 years emphasizes that July is also definitely the time of the sea of daisies (which has gone a bit rogue this year, but is still sea-of-daisies-like). …This…

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SSCS 01: Installment 26 of 31

SSCS 01: Installment 26 of 31

Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 26 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… The moon reaches its zenith, and the beetles’ song stops.  And they burrow back down into the sand, returning to their leaves and petals, returning to the…

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Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2023 week 25

Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2023 week 25

See Previous | See Next This week a couple of my fancy roses have decided to bloom.  I never get very many of those, but they are very pretty while they’re here.  The one in the picture is El Catala.  I might get one more bloom out of her (I have a very shady garden) or a rabbit or a squirrel might decide to eat it instead… Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years shows a bunch of roses that…

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SSCS 01: Installment 25 of 31

SSCS 01: Installment 25 of 31

Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 25 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… Because then the moon rises, round and perfect, more silver than the snake, which has wound itself down into the blackness of its spreading sand and barely…

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Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2023 week 24

Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2023 week 24

See Previous | See Next This week has given us extremes, from raining buckets, to sunny-and-hot.  Yucca flowers are some of my favorites, but always so sadly short-lived.  And my roses might be slow to turn up this year, but some at least have a lot more buds than usual – I suppose they like being properly (rain) watered. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years mostly gives hope of more roses – and also daisies coming soon. Looking back…

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Happy Father’s Day!

Happy Father’s Day!

This is a Father’s Day post! because my dad is great!  I’m not very good at writing about things that are really important to me in a good way – my words get extra stilted for some reason.  But that’s not a good reason not to tell you that my dad is great, and important to me, and I’m really proud to be his daughter. A quick sketch of my father can be summed up with three activities: I think…

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SSCS 01: Installment 24 of 31

SSCS 01: Installment 24 of 31

Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 24 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… Two more loops and First-shivered has also mastered the path, and Black-fire.  And then the last-and-smallest, who had traveled the furthest to reach the gather-place of the…

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