Essays from the edges. Newest first, or find your way by thread. Kin. Descent. Witness. Lineage.
The Grammar of Endurance
When everything in our human world begins to unravel, we still know how to stand with a tree.
Enough: Lifestyle Cannot Fix This
Sunlight and stair masters are being thrown at people trying to survive late-stage capitalism. We don’t need more prescriptions for personal discipline. We need systems of care.
When Faith Becomes a Death Cult
Suffering is not holy, and refusing medical care is not an act of faith.
It Was Never About Our Neighbors
No one survives alone. We are interconnected, bound together like the roots of a forest, like the filaments of a spiderweb. When the web breaks, it won’t just be the most vulnerable who fall, it will be all of us.
A Rhizomatic Exploration of Interconnectedness
Who even are we? We are the wolf and the woman, both hunted and haunted, both feared and revered.
When Things Come All The Way Undone
When things come all the way undone, the light that falls through your window arrives differently
Meaning Making through Ordinary Magic
Chokecherries are more than just berries. They are memory, inheritance, spellwork, and sustenance— they are a connection to my mother, my daughter, and the women who came before us.
Notes from the Edges of Everything: On women’s descent into the dark 3/7/24
Magic is the hum beneath everything. It is not only in the light but in the chaos, in the underworld, in the moments when all feels lost.
A Story in Two Parts: Two. Glacier National Park
Glacier National Park is a place shaped by history, marked by displacement, and layered with the stories of the Blackfeet and other Indigenous peoples who lived, prayed, and hunted here.
A Story in Two Parts: One. The Arboretum
What is the difference between wild and tame? This article considers the way that spaces like an Arboretum provide both access to nature and a reminder that even cultivated landscapes can hold traces of wildness.
What is a Rhizome?
Life is complex, interwoven, and intimately interconnected in ways we can barely grasp. The rhizome offers a way of seeing the world not as fixed and hierarchical but as fluid, tangled, resilient.
Echoes of Pine and Stone
I want to bring you to touch soft moss and witness mysterious lichen as they whisper secrets of survival and resilience to pine and stone.
A Note to Humanity: Reflections on the Illusion of Isolation
Isolation is an illusion. We belong. Not as singular beings, but as multitudes, as part of a vast and living world.