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buckwheat cornbread and learning
By
Britton Gildersleeve
In my family, there are certain things you don’t eat w/out cornbread. It’s just not done. These would include: any kind of beans (but especially bean soup), almost any kind of soup (but especially chicken noodle or potato-based chowders), and chili. There are more (anything Grandma or Aunt Bonnie served w/ cornbread, for instance). Suffice…
useful, beautiful, monsters
By
Britton Gildersleeve
I confess to a love of horoscopes. At heart, I’m still the animist kid I’ve always been: all things have spirits, and all things will tell you stories. If you can understand them, they will tell you of your future. So of course I love horoscopes — even though I know the science is pretty…
moody weather
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Britton Gildersleeve
What colour is a bad mood? Not blue — I’m not sad. Not red — I’m not angry, really. Not purple — I’m not depressed. I googled ‘bad mood,’ for images (free to use!) of ‘bad mood.’ And this is what I found. It’s perfect. Grumpy, gritty, sand. Yep. That’s my day. Sand in your…
recognising change and transformation
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Britton Gildersleeve
Sometimes we forget we’ve changed. Sometimes all we see is the old photo, out of date, blurred by time. But still razor-sharp in our mind’s eye. Once, the story goes, there was a caterpillar. Who was bright green, ate stinky milkweed, and basically was rather homely. In a pretty green fashion. Then there was a…
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