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Essays, Ideas, "Butterfly Thoughts", Vignettes, Experiments and more by Lyn Slater

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A New Geography of Hope and Care

Usually, when I haven’t written for a time, I offer explanations and reasons why.

Jane Addams DNA

And Women Weaving

A Letter to Myself and Where I Live

“The individual functions either independently where others are less implicated in one’s identity or interdependently where others constitute a part of one’s self-construal.”

Readers of Letters and Writers of Notes

Living an ordinary life

Ordinary Life

During the last month, I broke from Instagram.

Ten Saturdays

Re(finding) My Creative Way With Clothes

Lanternflies, Tree of Heaven, and other Invaders

In early July, after weeks of rain, during the humid heat wave smothering my yard like a wet and heavy wool blanket, they came.

Fox(gloves) in the Garden

The tall and rather elegant plant with its purple throated pink bell-like flowers grows well in the shade.

After the Fall: Unruly Blooms

This year I sense an urgency in the behavior of the plants that make up my gardens.

After the Fall: What Got Shaken Up (aside from my hip joint)

Last week, while on my way to mail a letter honking along during my usual high speed power walk, I trip and fall.