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Plus: Century-old milk powder and nature-slime
On the eclipse train
Inevitably, when one spends 16 hours traveling to witness a two-minute event, the journey is as much a part of the experience as the event itself.
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A euphoric sense of pride
It seems too simple, too neatly optimistic, that the world can work in such harmony. But it’s true.
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In the end, I did plant the seeds
I should let the backyard bring me joy, while we have it.
Seeing rat city through rose-colored glasses
There’s something particularly piquant about simply walking around with someone new to the city
Spiraling, but it's fine
Also: Victorian women enjoying Maine; nature writing and Alice and Wonderland
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Even more golf courses than McDonald’s locations
Plus: The end of university herbaria? Cop City protesters, or domestic terrorists?
“I can’t write as well as those guys, but I can walk a lot farther.”
Review: Wandering Home by Bill McKibben
Who should pay for playgrounds in public parks?
Plus: Reasons to be skeptical of 1,000 Hours Outside
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Obsessed, entranced, seduced, panicked
On decluttering and sacred spaces.
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Confronting speedboats, lazy lagooners, and loneliness on the Columbia River
On an 800-mile canoe trip, Hannah Griffin learned that a crowded river heavily altered by humans can be the loneliest to traverse.
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A victim of the cult of optimization and productivity
“They don’t know we’re just out there training for our real sport: long-distance walking.”
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