Here are a few short, expressive pieces I wrote last year that don’t fit anywhere in particular. Hope you enjoy! Prompt: “Compare and contrast the city/city life with nature/rural life” That great concrete jungle beckons the ambitious masses, but there is no true wilderness, no true adventure within its limits. It echoes with the neutered …
Tag Archives: nature
The Wind of the Winds
Myriad places of natural beauty in the world seem to have a “presence” or “spirit” about them. One notices this spirit by being present and paying attention to the environment. At the same time, its ways seem elusive, and even transient. “The wind—the spirit—blows where it wills, but you do not know where it comes …
A Study of the Solar Eclipse — Prize Edit
A year ago I kicked off this blog with the post A Study of the Solar Eclipse. I later revised this piece and submitted it to a writing contest at my college, the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I won the second-place prize for the piece–you can find the contest results here. Below I’ve posted the prize-winning …
Continue reading “A Study of the Solar Eclipse — Prize Edit”
San Juan Sunrise
“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere…” –John Muir In August of 2019, my dad and I undertook our annual trip from our Wisconsin home to the western United States. I’ve previously written about my experience of the 2017 solar eclipse, which happened on one of these trips, and I want to …
A Study of the Solar Eclipse
The “Great American Eclipse” was an event unlike any other in American history. Crossing the Lower 48 states on August 21, 2017, over the course of a few hours the moon’s hulking shadow bisected the country in a path from Oregon to South Carolina. This eclipse, striking a well-populated and technologically connected continent, became far …
scribo discere 