Whose real is it?
“It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those of the Empire, but our own. The desert of the real itself.” Jean Baudri…
Art from Earth
As I (Thom) was driving back and forth to teach my two classes in Colby’s JanPlan semester our fave community radio station, WERU.org / 89.9 FM, was amazing company. The trip was a hilly trek…
So-called everything, almost
Names can bear with them an indelible sin of their history. The settler-colonizers, who confiscated and named all these millions of bountiful acres from the ancient indigenous peoples, double-clutc…
https://herefromaway.blog/2023/11/19/late-love-as-looking-glass/
The latest collab essay from my baby and me dipping in and out of our own private heaven on earth.
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Late love as looking glass
“I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly; “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”― Lewis Carroll, Alice…
From the edge, in the midst
It’s a fresh fact of our life here on the edge of the sea that we are always also in the midst of someplace else – a pine wood, a dirt lane, a rough clearing of meadowy reeds holding th…
2 Yellow Kayaks
Even before we moved into our magical log home perched on top of a massive gleaming granite ledge within the pine wood we’ve named WildAir, we knew we needed kayaks. We had no idea what kind,…
https://herefromaway.blog/2023/09/02/back-to-away/
My forever partner and I made some shit happen in the past couple of years. Here's just the tiniest of slices.
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#WildAir
#TenantsHarbor
#StGeorge
Back to away
It’s September 2nd and we’re packing the car up to return for a few weeks to hot and sweaty Philly. We snapped this shot of our new used Subaru, the unofficial car of Maine. Note the pl…
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