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  • Of Trees and Roots and Names of Things

    When my grandpa Averill bought property on Wolf Lake in the Irish Hills of Michigan in the early 40s, he picked the choice lot for himself, and then parceled out smaller lots along the lake edge in a little barony he named “Averill’s Basswood Terrace”. (My grandpa liked to see…

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  • Wednesday? July 18, 2007

    I sleep so hard every night, here, that my pillows and blankets look undisturbed when I wake up. A pine branch stretches so close to…

  • Day 3: July 17, 2007

    My grandma is 92, and just moved into a small apartment in a senior complex in Midland, MI with a dining hall and transportation (so…

  • Entry for July 16, 2007

    (This is the second entry in my sculpture project journal. Photos will come later. If you want them in order, read July 15th first…) Monday…

  • Entry for July 15, 2007

    Day one, Parsons sculpture and design project, Lake Ann Michigan: I had spent a lot of the week getting ready to go, so I had…