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November 19, 2022
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Del Kiernan-Lewis
June 23, 2022
Early this morning, long before dawn, I was awakened by the clear staccato tweeting of a male northern cardinal outside my window. I didn’t bother…
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Del Kiernan-Lewis
June 16, 2022
I was sitting in the shade of a gnarly old magnolia tree in the courtyard of the nearby coffee shop which was inside an old white farmhouse built in the…
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June 12, 2022
No one invents an absence: cadmium yellow, duckweed, the capercaillie --see how the hand we would name restrains itself till all our stories end in…
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June 5, 2022
Man-eaters and the Platinum Jubilee
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May 29, 2022
Goethe once said, “I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.” Whether you’re 22 or 50…
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Del Kiernan-Lewis
May 23, 2022
The lizards are out in full force in my Florida neighborhood, clinging upside down on tree trunks, lurking immobile on the begonias, skittering rapidly…
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Del Kiernan-Lewis
May 15, 2022
Quantum entanglement seems so weird primarily because we tend to think of an electron as a spatially locatable object like a basketball, when in fact it…
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