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“Every blade in the field, every leaf in the forest, lays down its life in its season, as beautifully as it was taken up.”

-Henry David Thoreau
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“From a Train Window” by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Nature reminds us that death is part of her poetry

  When I was fourteen, my family went on a vacation to Ireland. We drove through the much-too-small roads in a much-too-big rental car: a Mercedes van that seated ten. It sometimes felt perilous weaving through quaint little towns in … Continue reading

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