Making It Real

Resume of Perseverance

I did thing this year.

Dec 29, 2025 • Addie

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Leading the Flock

Last month I put something on a stage in Detroit.

Dec 18, 2025

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October 2025

Chrysalis Time

I recently saw a monarch caterpillar become a chrysalis, and I have to tell you, if you have not seen this, you have not lived.

Oct 26, 2025 • Addie

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August 2025

from the field

August 3:

Aug 30, 2025 • Addie

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July 2025

Two Kinds of Knowing

on political despair and not being a computer

Jul 6, 2025 • Addie

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May 2025

Is Speed Dating Theater?

No.

May 24, 2025 • Addie

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April 2025

Sap Boil

I like this boiling-down thing as a way to approach clarity without sacrificing polyphony.

Apr 6, 2025 • Addie

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March 2025

The Shape of the Thing

Last month I saw a play in a language I don’t speak.

Mar 2, 2025 • Addie

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December 2024

On Accumulation

This new year’s eve marks ten years that my best friends and I, along with our combined constellation partners and children, have gotten together for…

Dec 29, 2024 • Addie

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Getting to Work

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen this quote in the past few weeks.

Dec 1, 2024 • Addie

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October 2024

October in Michigan

It took the leaves so long to turn that one of the chickens started laying. She’s a natural: makes her deposit every morning warm orb the color of my…

Oct 31, 2024 • Addie

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Itchy Mirror

I’ve now been writing this newsletter for the better part of a year, and I’m becoming aware of an effect I didn’t anticipate: the way its accumulation…

Oct 2, 2024 • Addie

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