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Fulfilling

My life is full Filled to the brim Overflowing With bills yet unpaid Dishes and laundry Dirtied and washed In endless cycle With mouths...

elsvanwoert

Mar 20, 20221 min read

Presence

My mind thinks It's got things Figured out It rehashes And replays The past It rethinks And rehearses Unchangeable events And then My...

elsvanwoert

May 2, 20211 min read

I Trust Me

I am in conversation with myself. In conversation with my champion (not my critic). We exchange ideas and name the good, my champion and...

elsvanwoert

Mar 31, 20211 min read

Holding Candles

What sustains me when all else falls away? A beating heart. A breath. Hope that wisdom can be found and meaning made. Faith that the...

elsvanwoert

Mar 30, 20211 min read

Belonging to Self

I was a girl who moved across spaces Who became a woman I am a woman who moves across spaces Who will one day bloom into a grey-haired...

elsvanwoert

Mar 4, 20212 min read

Dignity

I believe in the living Earth of which I am a part I pass the time minding gills, leaves, lungs taken by their art I am lifted by the...

elsvanwoert

Mar 4, 20211 min read

FISH.CLIMB.BRANCH. In Summary...

This website is called FISH.CLIMB.BRANCH... This entry is the fourth of four brief narrative essays to explain why in the hell that is....

elsvanwoert

Mar 4, 202111 min read

Lessons from an amateur sports career

When I was learning to fly fish and at one point getting frustrated with my lack of skill, my other half Simon said to me: “Els,...

elsvanwoert

Nov 5, 20185 min read

FISH.CLIMB.BRANCH. Unfurling BRANCH.

This website is called FISH.CLIMB.BRANCH... This entry is the third of four brief narrative essays to explain why in the hell that is....

elsvanwoert

Aug 2, 20184 min read

FISH. CLIMB. BRANCH. Moving on to CLIMB.

This website is called FISH.CLIMB.BRANCH... This entry is the second of four brief narrative essays to explain why in the hell that is....

elsvanwoert

Jan 28, 20175 min read

FISH.CLIMB.BRANCH. Starting with FISH.

This website is called FISH.CLIMB.BRANCH... This entry is the first of four brief narrative essays to explain why in the hell that is. My...

elsvanwoert

Jan 5, 20172 min read

FISH. CLIMB. BRANCH.

"Everybody is a genius.

But if you judge a

FISH by its ability to

CLIMB a tree

[BRANCH], it will live

its whole life believing that it is stupid."

-Einstein or maybe someone else

Fulfilling

Presence

I Trust Me

Holding Candles

Belonging to Self

Dignity

FISH.CLIMB.BRANCH. In Summary...

Lessons from an amateur sports career

FISH.CLIMB.BRANCH. Unfurling BRANCH.

FISH. CLIMB. BRANCH. Moving on to CLIMB.

FISH.CLIMB.BRANCH. Starting with FISH.