On this walk into school this morning there’s a robin standing on a NO PARKING sign, and it’s trying to be a dancing orangutan as it shimmies left and right along the metal top of it, presumably to tell me it’s got a problem with my being here. It leans forward and cocks its head…
This Dog’s Duffel Bag
This year has been a year of leaving self-compassion in the duffel bag for a week, then forgetting it was in there, that it needed to be petted, fed, and watered every day, it’s body practically lifeless now, its eyes as yellow as neglect. It’s horrible to be unzipped by the alarm and to awaken…
The Forest That Enchants Me
Being in this forest where I’m lost in a way of life that feels barely survivable, with the help of a few people, I’ve managed to stay fed on an ideal image of home in my head that reflects wherever it is I most want to be. This I think is because I was trapped…
Chris Russell 
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