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Around my life in five-and-a-half languages
Wherever I am, I'm not from around here
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Bad Day at Black Seed
"What upsets you about what you see happening? Is it the unity, the absence of dysfunction, humans feeding and caring for each other without fear?"
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We Weren't Supposed to Be There
A Thin Place
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Going to the forest
The changes that 2023 brought.
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Slide Area
Double Bluffing
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How do we show up?
In this world
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Growing pains
Water and agriculture, the second in a series about water on an island
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When the National Impacts the Local
"What they don't understand is that we're not like them. We chose government service to make a difference, not to make money."
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"Water, water, every where, / Nor any drop to drink"
Drinking Water on an Island
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"Be Famous for 15 Miles"
“Do you think it could be a general rule that the only place one is urgently needed is at home?”
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Acting locally
Lessons learned from a decade of activism
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The 30-Minute Territory
How place shapes community
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