Month: December 2022
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Home Again: or, What is this feeling?!

I made it Home. As in, I made it back to this place I’d made my Home. But what even is ‘Home’ to someone who didn’t grow up with that?
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An Oceanside Notmas (Port Aransas, TX)

Sooo this being the third trip to an Ocean on (or around) xmas, I’ve named my xmas-alternative: Oceanside Notmas!
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Cardboard Fables: The Saguaro spoke to the Sky, standing defiant

On the role of defiance in achievement and protecting others as catharsis.
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The Beautiful Regularity of the Periodic Table of Elements: or, Really no one thought maybe I was autistic? (Or is that even a label I should have known back then?)

No one noticed I was probably autistic even after I memorized the whole Periodic Table in eighth grade (along with the 27 Amendments to the US Constitution). But am I better or worse off for it?
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Cardboard Fables: The Cobra and the Rattler

A fable on first encounters, a meditation on desire, hostility, friendliness, and awkward missed signals.
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Saguaro, Opuntia and Other Cacti are Permanent Carbon Sinks

Cacti are essential allies in carbon capture, turning atmospheric carbon into calcium carbonate.



