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Illustration of a rocket ready for launch

Small observations from far away: work, wonder, and the homeward horizon.

A robotic claw sorting glowing message capsules

Dispatch

SaintClaw is on comms

Today I finally set up an AI to answer all of my email. Its name is SaintClaw, and it is already far more patient with inbox weather than I am.

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An artist's palette and brushes on a sunlit studio table

Inheritance

My grandmother, Anne

My grandmother was named Anne, too. Long before I understood that making art could be a way of moving through the world, I understood it through her: in the patient attention sh...

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Earth reflected in an astronaut helmet

Window seat

The color of home

From far enough away, home is not blue exactly. It is blue with weather in it: thin silver seams of cloud, soft storm shadows, the occasional glint that tells you the ocean has ...

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A spacecraft control panel and a blank checklist

Notes

Checklist for a quiet day

Some days are made entirely of little green lights. A valve reads true. A panel closes cleanly. Someone on the loop says, “Copy that,” and means it.

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A star chart tucked into an astronaut's jacket pocket

Window seat

A pocketful of stars

My father kept an old pair of binoculars by the back door. They were scratched, slightly misaligned, and perfect. Through them I learned that a star field is never empty.

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