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. & then on the day of my birth circumambulate our guardian mountain the valley below just my silence all day a long walk-about slow ly around within & without the great interwoven-ness of it all & all day not another person #Missoula #aRealPlace #MountSentinel

The switchback trail winding up Mount Sentinel in Missoula, Montana

Approaching the summit of Mount Sentinel in Missoua, Montana

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go. Of those so close beside me, which are you? God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there, And learn by going where I have to go. from T. Roethke The Waking

My feet on the earth, a real place, in Missoula Montana beside the river that flows west to the sea, the Clark Fork. . . Bearing Witness.

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

& between loads of laundry in &&& out and up &&& down ink and flocking on paper scraps #toMake #aRealPlace

Varnish layers on paper and lids with flocking powders

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

. 28:Sept. 1909 on the NW corner of W. Front St. & N. Higgins Ave. in #Missoula Montana the #IWW preaching "the destruction of capitalism, worker control of production, & workplace-centered democracy" on our the Free Speech Corner historicmt.org/items/show/2... #FreeSpeech #aRealPlace

The Free Speech Corner in Missoula Montana.
On the NW corner of West Front Street & North Higgins Avenue.

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

. YA) water is moving through all of us &&& again and again through all the living ness in the world #Glacier-Waterton #water #Diversity #WE #aRealPlace #WaterCycle

Water flowing downhill into Lake McDonald in Glacier-Waterton International Peace Park in Montana ... west into the Flathead, the Clark Fork, the Pend Oreille, the Columbia, the Pacific.

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

. toMake pressroom in Missoula, Montana . . . making a Real Place www.tomake.com #aRealPlace #Missoula #toMake #Printmaking #Lithography

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

. I try to remember, one two three counting coup :: naming names again & again the memory fades at 38 then :: &&& suddenly am I too someones counting of coup ‽ #CountingCoup #aRealPlace #Pinhole #Film #toMake

Six second exposure at dawn on Kodak TMAX100. OMNI 360° 120 format pinhole camera taken on the north hills in Missoula, Montana.

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

. One granite ridge A tree, would be enough Or even a rock, a small creek, A bark shred in a pool. Hill beyond hill, folded & twisted Tough trees crammed In thin stone fractures A huge moon on it all, is too much. The mind wanders. from Piute Creek by #GarySnyder #GlacierNP #aRealPlace #poem

McDonald Creek, Glacier-Waterton International Peace Park, September 2026. Ricoh GR4 Monochrome. Upstream view of the continental divide, Highline Trail and Going to the Sun road.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47181/piute-creek

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

. YA) water watershed wet :: I am become wet with desire

Baring Falls. Glacier-Waterton International Peace Park. Baring Creek just above Lake Saint Mary. Missouri-Mississippi watershed.

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

. from a poem by Robert Bly titled Why We Don't Die In late September many voices Tell you you will die. That leaf says it, that coolness. All of them are right. #Poem #RobertBly #Death #aRealPlace #Glacier #SaintMaryLake #ReynoldsCreekFire #RicohGR4 #Monochrome

Glacier-Waterton International Peace Park. Red Eagle Mountain & Saint Mary Lake and the 2015 Reynolds Creek burn.

Glacier-Waterton International Peace Park. Saint Mary Lake and the 2015 Reynolds Creek burn.

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

. we step into otherness ". . . And when the whole human race Has been like me rubbed out, they will still be here: storms, moon & ocean, Dawn & the birds. And I say this: their beauty has more meaning Than the whole human race & the race of birds." #RobinsonJeffers #GlacierNP #aRealPlace

Glacier-Waterton International Peace Park. September along Going to the Sun, a real place. Ricoh GR4 Monochrome. We visit a place of otherness and have no words but joy deLight.

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

. September :: the month in which the world began

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Sunrise on the Montana eastern front Slingshot Mtn :: Two Dog Flats Glacier-Waterton International Peace Park East side cam view: 15:September 7:13 AM 2026 View looking west into the park & Lake St.Mary #Glacier-Waterton #MT #aRealPlace #RockyMountainFront #GNP #sunrise

Sunrise on Slingshot Mountain the Montana eastern front :: 15:September 7:13AM 2026 webcam at St. Mary Glacier-Waterton International Peace Park.

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Monoprint. Stone lithograph, ink & relief chine-collé print on Kozo & Sakamoto papers. Milk and Missouri Rivers, Nashua Montana, Township & Range #toMake #printmaking #aRealPlace #T+R #lithograph #relief

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

. "Nothing more beautiful than the body Of the beloved that is the world. Nothing more beautiful than the voice Of the beloved, that is calling our name." by Gregory Orr #GregoryOrr #aRealPlace #Missoula #Montana #RicohGR4

My home in Missoula Montana is beside this tree, &&& where our waters flow to the western sea by way of the Clark Fork River, Lake Pend Oreille, the river Pend Oreille, the great Columbia River whose headwaters are to the north, cross many borders, and whose flow & the salmon have been dam'd . . . .

My home in Missoula Montana is beside this river where the waters flow to the western sea by way of the Clark Fork River, Lake Pend Oreille, the river Pend Oreille, the great Columbia River whose headwaters are to the north, cross many borders, and whose flow & the salmon have been dam'd . . . .

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

. long shadows along the river corridor we go slow ly && stop #ClarkFork #Missoula #aRealPlace #Ricoh

September 2026 along the Clark Fork River / Milwaukee RR / Kim Williams trail corridor east of Missoula Montana.

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

. September 11 2001 driving :: eastern Montana the open space no planes :: & a silence YA) the sky blue holding the #Zero100 #Velvia #Pinhole out the window driving 50 in the old #PickUp . . . where are we going ¿

Hand held Zero100 pinhole on RVP50 Velvia while driving
September 11 2001

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

. indeed not knowing is most intimate

... dancing along the single track trail ... beside the Clark Fork River ... in Missoula Montana. September 2026.

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

. before :: crescent moon bright earthshine & Jupiter rising in the east Orion later :: dancing on river single track soft damp earth touching Earth Witnessing :: #Bhumisparsha #Mudra unshakable resolve unwavering determination #aRealPlace #Mudra

Running along the Kim Williams single track beside the Clark Fork River in Missoula Montana. September 2026.

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

. At the market beside the river . . . the growers bring their produce, an abundance here. . . now, in this moment a real place, real food & for this I am become interwoven with the diversity of the harvest YA) #aRealPlace #Missoula #Market #CSA #RealFood

Saturday farmers market produce stand in Missoula Montana

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

. Leela Long Tail the Cat Divine Play #Caturday a Real Cat

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

. Stop'd at the waters edge. A sequence of three 120 format pinhole or lensless images on RVP Velvia film. Three second exposure Kelly Island, confluence of the Clark Fork & Bitterroot Rivers, Missoula Montana. #ForestFriday #Pinhole #Photography #aRealPlace #ClarkFork #Missoula #KellyIsland #Film

A sequence of three pinhole or lensless images. Kelly Island, confluence of the Clark Fork & Bitterroot Rivers, Missoula Montana.

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

. looking above where the clouds still float past #Missoula #aRealPlace #toMake #RICOH

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

. the world being :: infinitely diverse always changing interwoven dependent YA) I become . . . . #aRealPlace #toMake #Missoula

YA) a tree delights me and I am becoming more in her wonderment

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

. along the river corridor some things linger for awhile but everything moves along #Missoula #aRealPlace #ClarkFork #RICOH

Irrigation ditch off the Clark Fork River in Missoula Montana.

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

. I've been running on this once pathway of #Salish #Kootenay trail then #Milwaukee railroad then a RR bed then a trail beside the river the #KimWilamsTrail the #ClarkForkRiver forty years & more YA) and every time this present moment #Missoula #Montana #aRealPlace

Kim Williams Trail ... old Milwaukee RR bed ... older Salish Kootenay Blackfoot trail ... along the Clark Fork River in Missoula Montana

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

. YA) Walt sings to me this day "Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems " #WaltWhitman #SongOfMyself #Poetry

Words from Walt Whitman's poem Song of Myself

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

. stop'd along the river & realizing that things have rearranged themselves #aRealPlace #ClarkFork #Missoula

Looking east, upstream ... Clark Fork River ... Missoula, Montana.

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

. A stone on the press water tusche matrix YA) lithographic limestone being hydrophilic &&& hydrophobic This, a very old stone from the Late Jurassic at the edge of the Tethys Sea from the #Solnhofen Quarry #toMake #aRealPlace #Missoula #StoneLithography #Printmaking

Stone lithography matrix water based tusche

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

. in the garden quiet the mint is flowering. again.

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

. Three flags flying a red door welcoming a real mail box &&&& a bell ... all singing WE :: There is No Us or Them #Flags #Missoula #aRealPlace #UnitedNations #Pride #Inclusion #We #Earth #OneEarth #USPS

Three flags; U.N., Pride, Earth and a red door ... Missoula Montana

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

. YA) rain &&& "Let me say this before rain becomes a utility that they can plan and distribute for money. . . At the moment it is still free, and I am in it. I celebrate its gratuity and its meaninglessness." from Thomas Merton's essay 'Rain and the Rhinoceros' #Rain #aRealPlace #Missoula #Merton

Water drops on grasses on a walk in Missoula after a summers' rain.

Water drops on iris leaves on a walk in Missoula after a summers' rain.

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

. I should like to understand the understanding of the cottonwoods beside the river. but I do not need to possess this understanding to know how important they are. #aRealPlace #Missoula #ClarkForkRiver #Cottonwood #Otherness

A cottonwood beside the Clark Fork River in Missoula Montana.

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

. in the Place of First Waters stopping to bear witness Preston Park :: Siyeh Pass trail Glacier-Waterton International Peace Park East side Missouri-Mississippi drainage #GlacierNP #aRealPlace #SiyehPass #BearingWitness

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

. WE :: There is no Us or Them Letterpress edition in black ink on Kozo mounted chine collé on Somerset Velvet using BLOX modular type. #Letterpress #ModularType #BLOX #toMake #Printmaking #

'WE :: There is no Us or Them' print
Modular letterpress edition in black ink on Kozo mounted chine collé on Somerset Velvet.

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

. Be as courageous as you can "If none of us is prepared to die for freedom, then all of us will die under tyranny." No.20 from On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons by Timothy Snyder #Tyranny #Courageous #ActNow #SpeakOut #FieldNotes

On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
No.20 :: Be as courageous as you can

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

. “The Gate at The Crossing at El Coyote on the Vamori Wash to Many Dogs Place” Location :: Tohono Oʼodham Nation USA-Mexican border N.31˚ 33’ 31” W.111˚ 46’ 57” Crumpled & rolled Kitakata Kozo 39in. by 12ft. Inked string & letterpress #MapMaking #aRealPlace #Border #TohonoOʼodham #Printmaking

“The Gate at The Crossing at El Coyote on the Vamori Wash to Many Dogs Place” ... Tohono Oʼodham Nation USA-Mexican border crossing

Crumpled & rolled Kitakata Kozo 39in. by 12ft. Inked string & letterpress

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

[& again] on this day :: 9:August 1945 a Real Place a Real Event #OTD #FatMan #Nagasaki #Japan #AtomicBomb #aRealPlace

Fat Man Plutonium Atomic Bomb exploding over Nagasaki Japan on August 9 1945.

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

. everything every thing moving & moving jumbled and disordered together down stream #aRealPlace #Missoula #ClarkFork #photography

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

. "In Times of War it Becomes Necessary to Hack the Pavement" Stone lithograph. Tusche drawn on lithographic limestone. Limited edition 1-18/18 in a suite of two, black ink, 22 by 30 in. Map of Strawberry Creek, Berkeley CA #toMake #aRealPlace #Stone_Lithograph #Printmaking #Berkeley #map #print

"In Times of War it Becomes Necessary to Hack the Pavement"

Stone lithograph. Tusche on lithographic limestone.
Limited edition 1-18/18 in a suite of two, black ink, 22 by 30 in.

Map of Strawberry Creek, Berkeley Calif.

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

. Respect and Care for All Beings Ink on paper : Letterpress : Work to Keep the Earth Round #Letterpress #aRealPlace #toMake #Missoula #Printmaking #RoundEarth #Oikos #Resist #Kindness

Section of a larger broadside titled "Respect and Care for All Beings" ... letterpress hand printed on Kozo in a mixed black ink and mounted on Somerset Velvet. . . and stamped with carved stone chop in a red ink lower right.

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

. on this day :: 6:August 1945 a Real Place a Real Event #OTD #Hiroshima #AtomicBomb #aRealPlace

on this day :: 6:August 1945
Hiroshima Japan

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toMake @tomake.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

. from the Desire suite (Movement, Song & Prayer) I. Desire For Movement Stone lithograph on Kozo, chine-collé Edition of 12 ... 15 by 22 in. #toMake #aRealPlace #Lithography #Printmaking

Stone Lithograph print with Chine-collé in an edition of 12.
Titled: Desire for Movement.

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