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What Was Given
On Project MOC-1, the name built to say nothing, and the breath it may cost.
Jul 4
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Sam Harrelson
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June 2026
An Inch and a Half
A Venezuelan earthquake, a Williamston well, and the difference between registering and attending
Jun 30
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Sam Harrelson
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Sacramental Place Poetry Rooted in the Carolinas
My reflection on recent explorations of ecology, family, memory, theology, and the holiness of place... and a poem.
Jun 29
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Sam Harrelson
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What a Pool and a Walnut Reflect
How we learned to see a living surface as a failure, from the Reflecting Pool to the ground beneath a black walnut
Jun 22
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Sam Harrelson
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The Surveyor and the Survey
Reading Raymond Ruyer in the cracks of downtown Spartanburg.
Jun 15
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Sam Harrelson
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What Was Called Liberty
In Marion County, a $2.4 billion data center was approved in secret during a winter storm, then abandoned for reasons unrelated to the questions…
Jun 13
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Where The Shade Falls
In an American city, a map of the trees is too often a map of race and income.
Jun 9
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Sam Harrelson
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A Year Under the Black Walnut
Carolina Ecology turns one
Jun 5
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Sam Harrelson
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What Does Not Return
A data center on South Pine Street promises not to draw from the aquifer. West of the fall line, there is no aquifer to draw.
Jun 3
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Sam Harrelson
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May 2026
The Beach as Potency: Edith Stein, Children, and a Carolina Shore
A week at Myrtle Beach reminded me that a place is never only what adults have decided it is for.
May 30
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Sam Harrelson
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An Ecology of Memory in the Pee Dee
A story of water, tobacco, memory, and attention from Mullins to the wider watershed
May 26
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Sam Harrelson
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When the Rain Comes
Memory and the water cycle in the Carolina Piedmont
May 22
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Sam Harrelson
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