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July 2025

Burning Before Sunrise: Why the Rebellion Won’t Remember His Name
Invoking Luthen Rael from Star Wars: Andor to examine the ethics of rebellion and the price of being forgotten
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Marissa Gaston
FIELD NOTE: Three Summers | Lavender
💜 Third in a three-part Field Note cycle: one body, three summers, and the harvests that followed me home.
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Marissa Gaston
Peach Lavender Cookies: A Midsummer Recipe I Almost Didn’t Share
A gluten-free, honey-sweetened, small-batch bake with big-summer energy.
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Marissa Gaston
FIELD NOTE: Three Summers | Peaches
🍑 Second in a three-part field note cycle: one body, three summers, and the harvests that followed me home.
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Marissa Gaston
FIELD NOTE: Three Summers | Cherries
🍒 First in a three-part Field Note cycle: one body, three summers, and the harvests that followed me home.
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Marissa Gaston
Black Magic Berries
A meditation on forgotten fruit, food systems, and sweetness that doesn’t scale
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Marissa Gaston
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Red, White, and Wandering Home (Part I)
One globetrotter's tentative reencounter with pride in a complicated country
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Marissa Gaston
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June 2025

In Honor of Audacity
A meditation on compost, collapse, and the courage to continue
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Marissa Gaston
FIELD NOTE: The Trees That Forgot They Were Extinct
On Bach, botany, and the midnight booth
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Marissa Gaston
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Mother of Dragons and Other Survivors
In which a yam defies death, the sunspawn rise, and I try to keep up
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Marissa Gaston
So, You Found Me
Why this place exists — and who’s behind it
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Marissa Gaston
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