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Impermanence: Everything Changes — And So Can I

February 22, 2013 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

A limb splits off from a live oak tree in San Francisco Bay Area. Photo by BF Newhall

Impermanence. It’s a helpful, if not always comfortable, idea: Everything changes. It just does. My Aunt Grace died last month. My son Peter will be married in May. And 56 wind turbines are now up and running on the pristine rural countryside near my father’s birthplace. Read more.

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Hope-y New Year! Here’s to a hope-filled 2022. Not because hope will solve the climate crisis or end the culture wars. But just . . . because.  Read more.

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