Lili St. Crow's Blog, page 40

Boxnoggin’s Beams

It’s been a bit of a week, hasn’t it? I mean, they’ve all been like that lately, but still. This one seems like it’s been ...

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Harrison’s Biggest Fan

I have had occasion this morning to think about the creative writing “teacher” (my community college days were few but wild, y’all) who hated everything ...

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Copyedits and Variations

Yesterday was…well. A bad anniversary, copyedits looming, a paucity of good news, all combining in a Voltron of suckitude. It wasn’t the worst day I’ve ...

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Solemnities Marred

I remember hearing about the second plane hitting the towers. I was in our old apartment whose balcony had a lovely view of a pond ...

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Life, Oscillating

I suppose botanically they might not be daisies at all, but they’re still my favorites. The first autumn mist is thickening around the firs. It ...

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Predawn, Gatsby

It’s a pretty perfect predawn. While Boxnoggin was snuffling around rabbit-trails in the yard I could stand and breathe, smelling the turn of the season ...

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Ambling Strum

I am vertical (sort of) and blinking blearily at the world. Whatever this respiratory bug is, it hit hard indeed; I was laid out for ...

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Quince and Slight Hyperbole

I do really think this is a quince, though my botany classification skills are deeply mediocre at best. The tree is a real trouper, no ...

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Fever and Rain

Well, it had to happen. Since we mask pretty religiously around here, we haven’t had much in the way of respiratory illness since March of ...

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Energy Freed

With the break in weather, the marine layer’s returned. Dawn is incrementally later because of axial tilt and hides behind cloud-cover to boot, so Boxnoggin ...

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