Commotion
Beth Downing Beth Downing

Commotion

The road is more like a fly buzzing your ear that you’ve learned to ignore. The sea was a background and a companion.

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Trickster Ocean
Beth Downing Beth Downing

Trickster Ocean

On a recent hiking trip to Newfoundland, I wondered about the trickster on that island. Walking along the easternmost knife edge of the of the North American continent, in almost the precise middle of the trip, standing atop angular rock that fell fifty feet to the cove below, it became clear: it’s the ocean.  

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I Don’t Wanna
Beth Downing Beth Downing

I Don’t Wanna

Sometimes it's okay (nay, necessary) to eighty-six the adventure.

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Bisons & Bullets
Beth Downing Beth Downing

Bisons & Bullets

On a hill on an island with fewer than two hundred people on it, there was a sculpture of a bison with holes in it.

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