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January 2021

All We Can Do
(CW: animal mortality) There’s no good way to say this. My dog is dying. On some level, we’ve known this was coming for a while now. I’ve even been…
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Smoldering
Yes, I did cry during the inauguration, which I hadn’t planned on watching. I did watch it, though, and I did cry, in part because of something like…
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Necessary But Not Sufficient
It’s been a hell of a week, hasn’t it? It’s scary enough, of course, to watch a group of traitorous insurrectionists violently take over the seat of…
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Scattered, vol. 5
New Year's 2021 edition
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December 2020

50 Things That Mattered To Me In 2020
Today is, among other things, the last Friday of the year. It is my habit to take the end of the year as an opportunity to look back at the things I…
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Mike Sakasegawa
Acceptance
There’s a thing that people say sometimes about writing as a way of finding out what you’re thinking about. I’ve known for a while that photography is…
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Mike Sakasegawa
The Party of Stasis
In a few days, I and several of my colleagues will be meeting with our Congressman for the first time since the election. I believe this will be our…
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Irrevocability
On the night of my youngest’s sixth birthday, when the house was quiet and everyone else was asleep, I wrote in my journal, “I will never put you to bed…
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