Palindrome:
Grateful Reflections from the Home Ground
Palindrome:
Grateful Reflections from the Home Ground
New release
The essays and poems in Palindrome were born as morning journal entries, riverside scribblings, and phone notes from ridge tops when words howled for freedom. They celebrate the emerald ripple of the Pacific Northwest and embrace departed family, raspberry sunrises, imminent storms, and the bloodshot stare of a sharp-shinned hawk. In the way that a palindrome reads identically, start to finish to start, and contains an internal reflection nudging against infinity, these writings reflect on our relationship with events and beings, beautiful and timeless.
“Palindrome: Grateful Reflections from the Home Ground is only slightly larger than a smart phone, but doesn’t require a battery or cell service, doesn’t give off dangerous radiation, won’t wake you or your partner in the middle of the night, and it will still be readable if you drop it in the creek! This book is also much cuter than a phone.” — Tom A. Titus
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New release
The essays and poems in Palindrome were born as morning journal entries, riverside scribblings, and phone notes from ridgetops when words howled for freedom. They celebrate the emerald ripple of the Pacific Northwest and embrace departed family, raspberry sunrises, imminent storms, and the bloodshot stare of a sharp-shinned hawk. In the way that a palindrome reads identically, start to finish to start, and contains an internal reflection nudging against infinity, these writings reflect on our relationship with events and beings, beautiful and timeless.
“Palindrome: Grateful Reflections from the Home Ground is only slightly larger than a smart phone, but doesn’t require a battery or cell service, doesn’t give off dangerous radiation, won’t wake you or your partner in the middle of the night, and will still be legible if you drop it in the creek! The book is also much cuter than a phone.”
— Tom A. Titus
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I’m full of gratitude for these soul-searching essays and poems. They reflect with equal parts grace and wit on the nature of life and death against a background of coastal mountain cabins and eccentric neighbors co-existing in a glorious medley of skin and fur and feathers.
Each chapter of Palindrome is a beautiful meditation and a keen experience of place celebrating this beloved Northwest. I feel energized and grounded by these essays.
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