Read by Theme: The 13 Tons of Love Archive
Compost Stories
Reflections on literal and metaphorical compost and the powers of transformation, regeneration and renewal in times of grief and gratitude.
The Origin Story, Part 1: Compost & Mothers
The Origin Story, Part 2: Kaleidoscopes
The Origin Story, Part 3: Memory
The Origin Story, Part 4: Meaning
Recomposing Shakespeare: On Composting Books & Cultivating Kinship to Place
Composting - It’s Spiritual For Me: On Seeing the Universe in Our Gardens
Earth Day with Compost & Books: An Ending & a Beginning
Seeing Beauty: Finding Joy With Trees & Bananas
International Compost Awareness Week: Who Knew?
The Compost Cure: A Ritual & Memory
Gardens & Earth
Seasonal and elemental observations rooted in soil, plants, weather, and place, exploring what the world teaches when we pay attention.
Grounded: The Downward Gaze and Typologies of Wandering, Wondering & “Earthing”
Elemental Gifts: Seascapes & Landscapes - E Pluribus Unum
Elemental, Part 1: Ritual Rendering of What is Raw and Real
Elemental, Part 4: Open to Surprise While Cultivating an Embodied Practice
Embodied Cold - Snow: Raw, Real & Elemental
Old Friends: In the Garden, On the Anniversary of my Mother’s Death
Ode to Comfrey: The Deep Root Fixer
Rhubarb Ruminations: Conversations With & Among Plants
For the Love of Chives: Mixing & Mingling with Shakespeare & Other Friends
Objects & Memory
Essays where material stuff — old books, clothes, tools — offer portals to memory and meaning.
The Red Book: Musings on Symbolism & The Earth;s Power to Absorb our Stories
Recomposing Shakespeare: On Composting Books & Cultivating Kinship to Place
Reframing Whitman, A Goodbye Story: A Cotillion Dress, A Poem, and the Re-imagining of Self
Beach Treasures: Resting Among Beach Shoes & Other Detritus
Elemental, Part 2: Vulnerable But Inspired as I Hang Out With Mending
Embodied Fiber: Blank Space, Getting Air, and a Wedding Dress
Boundaries & Women’s History: Names, Lineages, and a Wedding Dress
Playdate with a Wedding Dress: A Treasured Object, Unbounded, In the Elements
Object Edit: A Dress as Portal to Memory and Meaning
Photographic Meditations
Image-led pieces that pair photographs with brief reflections on seeing, time, and presence.
The Edit: A Goodbye Story on Letting Go of the Digital Archive
Ritual & Editing: Exploring Digital Clutter
Mist Meanderings: Suspended and Untethered but Grounded by Light
Follow the Light - A Photographer’s Resilience Practice
Seeing Texture, With Gratitude - A Photographer’s Resilience Practice
Considering Flow - The Power of The Edit
On This Day…October 23: Following the Flow of Time
Curating a Life —The Big Edit: 350 Images a Day For 350 Days?
Peonies & Poppies: On a Long Life, Editing the Archive, & Patience