Deep Roots
Grand Rapids, Michigan (2012) Most roots do their growing underground out of view of the observer. What mystery leads them to lengthen and sink…
Read MoreGrand Rapids, Michigan (2012) Most roots do their growing underground out of view of the observer. What mystery leads them to lengthen and sink…
Read MorePhoto: Sorbie Farm, Salem, OH, Hanna Family Archives (circa 1958) It was a day, her uncle said, more beautiful than it had any right…
Read MoreThere is a stake in the ground just below the gully of willow trees, above the creek, in the back field of our farm…
Read MorePozzi Farm, just outside of Valley Ford, California (2014) In the place where I grew up, there are many fences, barbed wires, stakes, and…
Read MoreHer eyes blur the fields. She shrinks to a seed, forgets to speak, forgets to say how footprints till the layers of her brain,…
Read MoreGrafton, Ontario (2017) In this piece, my son Caspian stares out across the crest of a small hill to the road and fields north…
Read MoreEditor’s Note: The following is an excerpt of a larger essay titled, “A Reflection on Isaiah 5, Ecological Solipsism, and ‘Watershed Discipleship’,” which appeared…
Read MoreShe never ceased to wonder at the incredible power of birds for adaptation. These had flown perhaps a thousand miles from the South to…
Read MoreM-13 in Zilwaukee, Michigan (September 2013) The Zilwaukee Bridge is a gateway. As most know, Michigan has two peninsulas: the Upper and the Lower….
Read MoreFraser River, British Columbia, Canada (June 2016) I was out today with the camera down along one of the winding arms in the delta…
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