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"The Peace of Wild Things"
The magnificent mysteries of ponds
Jul 20, 2020 • Jessica Leigh Hester

June 2020

"Sleeping in the Forest"
Lawns—terrible and wonderfully familiar
Jun 21, 2020 • Jessica Leigh Hester
Faraway Senses
The effort to reconstruct the prehistoric past—and understand friends' routines
Jun 9, 2020 • Jessica Leigh Hester
"Camperdown Elm"
The enduring charm of an odd outlier
Jun 1, 2020 • Jessica Leigh Hester

May 2020

"Bat"
The wondrously unfamiliar nighttime landscape
May 25, 2020 • Jessica Leigh Hester
"Exit Glacier"
The slippery task of tracking the passage of time
May 18, 2020 • Jessica Leigh Hester
"What Would Root"
The spectacular strangeness of California's High Desert
May 10, 2020 • Jessica Leigh Hester
"Cloud Study"
The art of looking up and around
May 4, 2020 • Jessica Leigh Hester

April 2020

"The Hermit Crab"
The subtle drama of the shore
Apr 27, 2020 • Jessica Leigh Hester
"Arriving Again and Again Without Noticing"
Linda Gregg's recollected routine
Apr 20, 2020 • Jessica Leigh Hester
"[O sweet spontaneous]"
e. e. cummings's ode to spring
Apr 13, 2020 • Jessica Leigh Hester
"The Ballad of the Northern Lights"
Robert W. Service's ode to the Yukon Gold Rush
Apr 8, 2020 • Jessica Leigh Hester
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