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Slowly into the dirt
A recycled essay about death as recycling
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Everything, All the Time
And other things I just can't do
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Tresta Payne
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August 2024

Whirlwinds and platforms of ignorance
A Five Things, Smokin' Hot, Tired Writing exercise
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Tresta Payne
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July 2024

All our labels need air quotes
A very limited discussion about choosing good books for kids
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Tresta Payne
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Cost effectiveness is for the birds
My lifelong pursuit of ways to procrastinate joy has to stop now, because tomorrow there could be a patch of solid air I didn’t see coming and how sad…
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Tresta Payne
14

June 2024

Let It Fly
A challenge and a resource created with Callie Feyen and Megan Willome
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Risking Rootedness
Should I stay or should I go? An invitation to rootedness and a whole host of other goodness at Cultivating Oaks Press
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Tending this patch of ground
In the closing session at the C.S.
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May 2024

Are you saying I'm not holding things together?
A screw and a button
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Tresta Payne
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April 2024

On Good News and Evangelism
What if Beauty came first?
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Why I'm watching the flowers
“Never in any case whatever is a genuine effort of the attention wasted.” ~ Simone Weil
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Patient God
I’ve forgotten His name because He is everywhere
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