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Nature Connection ~ Ecopsychology ~ Mindfulness ~ Reader ~ Writer ~ Aspiring Crone~ Author of Sylvan Crone, Wolf Tree, & Going Feral heatherdurhamauthor.com

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Delicious Trees by Miriam Gershow The thing I don’t remember is leaves. It’s been winter forever, branches bare, limbsnaked. There’s ice on snow on ice. Gray slosh. Needles hold on the fir trees, butneedles aren’t the same as leaves. ...

Honored as heck to be included in the second issue of Literary Namjooning. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

12.09.2025 17:34 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 4

Holy cow, congratulations!!

24.08.2025 22:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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September 6th, 6 p.m. at Bellingham’s fabulous Village Books, I’ll be joining the talented author Lyanda Lynn Haupt in conversation about my latest book, Sylvan Crone, and likely our common passions of nature connection, nature writing, and the wonders of birds.
@villagebookswa.bsky.social

24.08.2025 21:41 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
WARM LINES THAT DON'T CALL THE POLICE
More resources: InclusiveTherapists.com/crisis
• Call Blackline: 800-604-5841
• Centers BI&POC, LGBTQ+ Black Femme Lens
• Trans Lifeline: 877-565-8860 (US),
877-330-6366 (Canada)
• Run by and for Trans people
• Wildflower Alliance Peer Support Line:
888-407-4515
• Trained peer supporters
• StrongHearts Native Helpline:
844-762-8483
• Centering Native Americans & Alaska Natives
• Thrive Lifeline: 313-662-8209
• Trans-led and operated
• LGBT National Help Center: 888-843-4564
@InclusiveTherapists

WARM LINES THAT DON'T CALL THE POLICE More resources: InclusiveTherapists.com/crisis • Call Blackline: 800-604-5841 • Centers BI&POC, LGBTQ+ Black Femme Lens • Trans Lifeline: 877-565-8860 (US), 877-330-6366 (Canada) • Run by and for Trans people • Wildflower Alliance Peer Support Line: 888-407-4515 • Trained peer supporters • StrongHearts Native Helpline: 844-762-8483 • Centering Native Americans & Alaska Natives • Thrive Lifeline: 313-662-8209 • Trans-led and operated • LGBT National Help Center: 888-843-4564 @InclusiveTherapists

If you or someone you know is in crisis, here are some support lines that will not call the cops on vulnerable callers.

06.11.2024 17:22 👍 13 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 1
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Time out.
#morethanhumanworld

28.06.2025 15:17 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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It takes a village to raise a memoir. Here are just a few of the literary influences and inspirations behind Sylvan Crone.
#speakyourtruth

22.05.2025 16:35 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Burnout When to slow down and gather around the fire

“All around me, people seem to constantly be talking about catching up, but catching up to what? I cannot seem to even keep up.”

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Leigh Ann Henion writes on burnout, the origins of artificial light, and finding stillness in the dark.

17.05.2025 15:20 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Last week I watched both directions of a busy state highway stop and wait patiently while multiple drivers corralled a loose (lost?) dog into someone’s truck, which made me cheer and then full-on weep for the humanity I’ve felt missing. So… I get it.

12.05.2025 23:00 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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we are here to bloom!

29.04.2025 07:05 👍 68 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 2
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Life imitating art imitating life in the more-than-human world.

25.04.2025 15:03 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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New on the Lit Hub Podcast: Celebrating Indie Bookstore Day! A weekly behind-the-scenes dive into everything interesting, dynamic, strange, and wonderful happening in literary culture—featuring Lit Hub staff, columnists, and special guests! Hosted by Drew Br…

Today on the Lit Hub podcast, we’re celebrating Indie Bookstore Day!

25.04.2025 15:00 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2
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We offer a fellowship for BIPOC writers to attend a two-week residency at Mineral Arts & Residencies. Applications due May 15. WelcomeToMars.submittable.com

18.04.2025 19:19 👍 12 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
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A Reading List for Earth Day 2025 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses This reading list of poems, essays, and stories published by CLMP member magazines includes writing about nature, the climate crisis, and more.   Essays   “From the Oldest Forest in Montana” by Rick B...

Important reading for Earth Day, and everyday, from literary journals near and far:

www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

22.04.2025 19:05 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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An event featuring Lulu Miller, Sabrina Imbler, AND Amy Ray? It's about to be the coolest Spring Issue Launch ever.

Join Orion, @radiolab.bsky.social, and @lambdaliterary.org for a joyous event celebrating our amazing queer planet on April 16 by registering right here.

shorturl.at/Ppors

09.04.2025 18:59 👍 19 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
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Today’s beautiful thing.

06.04.2025 04:37 👍 227 🔁 23 💬 3 📌 0
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Thousands Gather at Seattle's Hands Off Rally Here are all the signs and shirts and dogs we saw at today's rally. Good job showin' up, Seattle.

Great pics from Seattle yesterday. 7,000 registered. Way more than that showed up (estimates are in the 10’s of 1,000’s).

www.thestranger.com/news/2025/04...

06.04.2025 16:41 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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Seattle area folks, I’m looking forward to seeing some of you tomorrow!

26.03.2025 21:59 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Kingfisher Bookstore Books, Maps, Cards and More on Coupeville's Historic Waterfront

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04.03.2025 13:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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It's my book birthday! Sylvan Crone is officially released into the world. Washington friends, I'd love to see you at either of my first two events. Registration is recommended (it helps the bookstore get a sense of numbers) but not required; links below.

04.03.2025 13:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Unbound Spotlight: A Journey into Wild and Self with Heather Durham's Sylvan Crone A showcase of bold, necessary, and transformative writing.

Thrilled for Sylvan Crone to be highlighted by the fabulous @wayfarermagazine.bsky.social :

>>Unbound Spotlight: A Journey into Wild and Self with Heather Durham's Sylvan Crone open.substack.com/pub/wayfarer...

02.03.2025 20:11 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Breaking News!
#morethanhumanworld

01.03.2025 16:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This week, writer @taracampbell.bsky.social reminded me that "We shouldn't have to stop being the creative people we are because of the broligarchs' inability to ever have enough. If anything, what we're doing is what makes our country worth fighting for."

She's right. Go out and make great ART.

21.02.2025 16:30 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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What my self care looks like today.

21.02.2025 20:31 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Radical Authenticity Prize was created to amplify the bold, authentic voices of Trans and Non-Binary authors and poets. Learn More: bit.ly/3CRy8uq

15.02.2025 02:40 👍 9 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Photo of alley in NY. An enclosed footbridge arches above the alley and between two buildings. The word “poems” curves with the shape of the bridge. Below that, the title, “It Wasn’t Easy to Reach You,” and author name, “Daniel Meltz.”

Photo of alley in NY. An enclosed footbridge arches above the alley and between two buildings. The word “poems” curves with the shape of the bridge. Below that, the title, “It Wasn’t Easy to Reach You,” and author name, “Daniel Meltz.”

This beautiful, funny, frank, profound, irreverent, heartbreaking, uplifting, gay af, debut poetry collection from Daniel Meltz releases like a cocoon of butterflies today!

It Wasn’t Easy to Reach You

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14.02.2025 15:51 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 1

Thanks so much, Jody, from the bottom of my own soft mossy heart. 💚

14.02.2025 16:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0