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Between Our Steps: Retreating Snow

Sooner or later, all of winter’s snow does disappear, and we find what has been waiting underneath.

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Apr 02, 2025
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Confining snow banks retreat. The first thing to be revealed is garbage. A juice carton blown from last week’s recycling. Plastic containers. A beer can thrown out of a car window. I cannot believe how many I find on Grey Road 1; how many people drink while driving, throwing the evidence onto the ro…

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Cathy Hird lives between the escarpment and Georgian Bay, the traditional territory of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation. Retired farmer and United Church minister, Hird writes fiction and creative non-fiction, with seven published fantasy and SciFi novels.
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