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Flight of the fire ants
“There is no such thing as an empty lot.” So baby and I learned yesterday, sneaking through this feral patch of industrial park. We are deeper in the…
Christopher Brown
Jun 28, 2020
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Rare Earths
Sunday morning we watched the sun rise over downtown Houston through the window of our hotel room by the loop highway, and what dialed up with first…
Christopher Brown
Apr 10
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Prepper dreams of edgeland wine
A spider bit me in the face Saturday morning, after I stepped right into its web. I could feel it there right above the orbit of my right eye, and…
Christopher Brown
Aug 8, 2021
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Requiem for a hound
Almost every day this week, I found the fragment of a songbird egg in my path. On the sidewalk, mostly, making you wonder where they came from, what the…
Christopher Brown
Jun 13, 2021
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Adverse possession
After lunch on Christmas Day I took a bike ride down by the river and up along the frontage road of the new tollway to make a delivery to my friend…
Christopher Brown
Jan 2
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Cold Load
A report from the Ercotastrophe zone
Christopher Brown
Feb 21, 2021
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The nomads of February
The waxwings are back this week. They come every year around this time, arriving stealthily, in big flocks like schools of airborne bait fish. For such…
Christopher Brown
Feb 16, 2020
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Black Nature Writing
Reading stories of braver solos
Christopher Brown
Jun 7, 2020
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A Valentine's greeting from Planet Herschel
Thursday before last the toddler and I went for a walk in the woods at dusk. She is becoming more alert to the sights and sounds in the woods, learning…
Christopher Brown
Feb 14, 2021
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Fungus garden Noël
Tuesday at sunup the black mouth cur and I walked down into the thick fog along the river as a cool night tried to dial up into a warm day. Those misty…
Christopher Brown
Dec 19, 2021
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On the Beach
We left the U.S. on the anniversary of the coup attempt, seeking the playa. One of my in-laws was taking advantage of Costa Rica’s health care system to…
Christopher Brown
Jan 23
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A winter offering to the Texas Druid Queen
It was hazy Monday night, but when we stepped out to stare at the alignment of Jupiter and Saturn there in the southwestern sky, the thin clouds had…
Christopher Brown
Dec 27, 2020
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