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Thank you! I think the porcelain bust is just the remains of a child's doll, but an exceptionally beautiful one. As for settlers and the idea of settlement, I think I'm just scratching the surface there of mining the connections—so much to consider in that territory.

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A porcelain doll head from Germany that survived all this time. Much to mine here as a scavenger of time. Cultural sediment. Have returned from two weeks in northern Minnesota where wilderness of the bogs were drained, ditched and dredged for a century in a form agricultural-industrial waste zones. I found patches of showy lady slippers in bloom in undisturbed ditches to my delight.

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That sounds beautiful! I love that country, and it has been too long since I have been up there. As for artifacts in the river, indeed—in the book I talk about the idea of "foraging for meaning," and this kind of thing is a good exemplar.

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