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In Praise of Persimmons
Is there anything more glorious than a persimmon tree in December? In the grey, thick fog, the dark shadows of deciduous trees with their leaves down for the season, and the deep greens of fir and pine, the radiant orange globes practically glow against the monochrome landscape, each a tiny sun bursting with juice. There…
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Coming Back into Kink
I was taught that BDSM and leather spaces were supposed to be bubbles of safety, originally created as havens for queer folk seeking home and community during periods where merely existing was systemically criminalized in more obvious ways than it is during current times. I first delved into BDSM in 2014 during my first year…
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Accessing Community – Thoughts on community as a resource, and the challenges when community isn’t accessible to everyone.
This is a piece I have struggled to figure out how to write for years now. It is a topic that is deeply painful and personal to me, and I wasn’t sure whether to just keep it to myself. But now more than ever, I find it important to share my experience, and my feelings…
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Apple butter with home grown apples
Made a big batch of spiced apple butter from one of the trees apples last night! One of the trees was dropping a lot of apples prematurely due to insect damage. I don’t use any insecticides on the acreage, and since I haven’t been here even a year, am still working on establishing other systems…
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Post-surgery bitey session with Ashe!
My hip is feeling good enough to ease into some bitey stuff with Ashe again! We are both a bit sloppy (I mean, neither of us do this for sport, we just do it at home for fun, so our technique isn’t super clean or how it’s “supposed to be” to begin with). Here in…
Dani Shapira 