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Night in the World

Darkness Arrives: Welcoming Night

Our world has a nighttime face. Growing up in the suburbs, I never knew the darkness of the wild, yet I did know night.

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Darkness Falls: Meeting the Elders

On Halloween near dusk, I lit a fire outside for the ancestors. This was a special fire made only of ash wood—windfall from the tree that towers at the back of property, the one we call Grandfather.

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