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My Second Novel
120 wordsTwo weeks from now, on March 15th, my second novel will officially be released. LISTEN focuses on the confluence between music and nature. It’s a story about love: the love between two young people, and the love they discover for the natual world. Above all, this is a story about reconnecting with the earth. The…
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A Box Full of Goodness
103 wordsGuess what arrived in the mail last night? Advance copies of my second novel, Listen! No matter how many books I might publish in my lifetime, I don’t think I’ll ever get used to this feeling. My words, my story, my characters, all brought into tangible existence! It finally feels real. I’m a published author? A two-time published…
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Tangible Stars
52 wordsIn some ways the trees are as unknowable as the stars. Here they are, tangible secrets, immense suns and mountains that are somehow alive before us. Let us feel their comfort and their power, and call them small deities, for here the stars have fallen at our feet, and look how mindlessly we stomp over them.
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The Hazelnut Tree
61 wordsThe hazelnut tree, the old Corylus cornuta, is yellow rain beyond my window. The warm glow of dripping candles, the fringed hair of some ever living willow. It is the aftermist of an ocean wave, and riverbank leaves decaying in water. As I look at the hazelnut I forget about winter, because with those delicate catkins come the…
