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Wren Independence Day

By Elizabeth Enslin on July 4, 2010

The house wrens nesting on our yurt porch chose this morning, the 4th of July, to shoo their young ones out of the nest.

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Posted in Recent, Seasons and Rituals, Wildlife Encounters | Tagged birds, holidays, Humor, nature, photography, wild | 3 Responses

The cover on the last issue featuring Nate Ronniger's painting, which inspired my first poem. Can't wait to see what's on the cover of Issue 11.

Another Bovine Poem Finds a Home

By Elizabeth Enslin on March 11, 2010

The High Desert Journal has accepted another poem of mine, this time for Issue 11 of their print journal, due out in April. Although it doesn’t focus exclusively on cows, my sestina, “Now That I’ve Moved Inland,” does feature them in every stanza….

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Celebrate the Solstice with Laughter

Celebrate the Solstice with Laughter

By Elizabeth Enslin on December 21, 2009

I began blogging a year ago by reflecting on the challenges of Balancing Work and Play. I still haven’t figured that out, but I know what helps with that and with surviving this dark season: humor….

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Posted in On Blogging, Recent, Seasons and Rituals, Species Humor | Tagged blogging, holidays, Humor, solstice | Leave a response

Ice Patterns

Ice Patterns

By Elizabeth Enslin on December 9, 2009

Writing experts tell us to never, ever open a story with the weather. And while a brief comment on the weather can sometimes be an ice breaker, extended conversations about it more likely signal that both parties have run out of interesting things to say. That’s all changing now….

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Posted in Humor, Recent, Seasons and Rituals | Tagged climate change, Humor, nature, photography, Writing | 4 Responses

Experiments with Poetry

Experiments with Poetry

By Elizabeth Enslin on April 30, 2009

I overcame a lifelong fear of writing poetry on April Fool’s Day. It happened by accident. I had grown tired of my stale prose habits and surfed the web looking for distraction….

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If I Can’t Laugh, I Don’t Want to Be in Your Revolution

If I Can’t Laugh, I Don’t Want to Be in Your Revolution

By Elizabeth Enslin on March 8, 2009

“If you’re still laughing, you’re not getting it.”  I heard a respected elder in the environmental movement make these comments several weeks ago.  I bow to the wisdom of all our elders: Thoreau, Leopold, Muir, Lao Tzu.  But this appeal for us to stop laughing and get on with the environmentalist revolution bothered me.  I  

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About Elizabeth Enslin

A writer based in Oregon, I look for inspiration and distractions in nature. An anthropologist, I ponder the places where nature and culture meet. A kitchen gardener, I promote biodiversity and learn from farming traditions around the world. A recovering academic, I try to do all with compassion and humor.

Find out more about me here, or at elizabethenslin.com.

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