Kristina Stykos Kristina Stykos

The Renovation

It's been a few years since I called a construction site my home…

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Raw Is Real

The few blossoms left grow brighter, as if to squeeze every last drop of summer until we cry out "Enough!" …

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Bobby’s Pass

Hard to tell what the theme of a day might end up being…

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Going Against

It's not that I go against laws, well, not really…

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Spent

The spent blooms of lady's mantle, not so great, anyway, we fret as to when to cut them…

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Glo’s Sugarbush

I'd hoped to help Glo put up her last couple cords of firewood, and I did, but throwing firewood is an inexact science ...

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Digging Ferns

I was the one with bad knees, not really first tier for expedition hiking…

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Dinner at Susan’s

I worked my day shift at the top of the valley, where the two dirt roads converge. Monarch Hill and Spring roads in Tunbridge, a neighborhood so full of character; I won't easily let it go…

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Mask or No Mask

One of my very best friends and I do not agree on current events…

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My Exile

It was worth it just to see it, hear stories about it, and touch the water…

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Sticks and Snags

A bunch of sticks caught up on rocks, it's a lot of what you see when you're looking…

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Cliffs

You go there to jump off the cliffs…

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Hard To Believe

It's hard to believe that anything we knew about our life as it was, still is…

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