Where Reality Becomes Illusion

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Interview With a Gardener – a journalistic self-portrait

Post author By Camille Armantrout
Post date January 8, 2022
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Probing my raison d’etre.

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How a Few Trees Kept Me From Spinning Out of Control

Post author By Camille Armantrout
Post date April 23, 2021
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When disaster strikes, we reach for the familiar — something sturdy like the trunk of a tree — and hold on.

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My Friend Carl

I wrote this post in 2016 and Sheri McGregor put it in an anthology, a kind of “Chicken Soup for the Soul” for nature freaks. The essay would belong to Sowing Creek Press for a year following publication after which I could do anything I wanted with it, such as post it here on Plastic […]

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What the Rain Barrel Taught Me About Gratitude

Post author By Camille Armantrout
Post date February 13, 2021
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They say you never miss the water ’till the well runs dry.

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Random Musings from My Morning Journal

Post author By Camille Armantrout
Post date December 26, 2020
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I don’t know if I would have survived the existential threats to our health care system and our democracy without someplace to jot down my fears and observations.