Catherine Hamrick

Photographer shares the world from every perspective. Wordless wonder!

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2020 Birdwatch (nature heals in an unlikely year)

Everything came sooner this year— ‘February Gold’ daffodils frilling the neighbor’s yard, marching in patches, like bonneted Dutch dolls patterning the quilts hand-stitched by my grandmother in the halo of a Depression glass kerosene lamp; the ground thaw of the full worm supermoon, with the mounding of earthworm droppings crushed under my boot weeks before […]

On Writing: The Power of the Exact Word

As a copy chief for a magazine and book division, I edited articles relentlessly—while honoring artful turns of phrase—inspired by Gustave Flaubert, the masterful storyteller who coined the term le mot juste, or “the exact word.” He wrote, “All talent for writing consists, after all, of nothing more than choosing words. It’s precision that gives […]

Coneflower Sequence (the rewrite)

Reconsidering and revising a poem can take you to a new place. Like many this year, I turned to nature for respite and got a new perspective. Here are two versions of the poem. 2020 Last spring, I wanted something trouble-free and found it in coneflower seed packets, buying into the midsummer promise of self-sowing […]

Photographer shares the world from every perspective. Wordless wonder!

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