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Spring 2022 might not be a banner season for wildflowers – it wasn’t a wet winter – but if you put in some work, hillsides splashed with color are just within reach. In late April, a friend and I hiked up to Timber Top in Big Sur, an arduous, 2.6-mile slog uphill with about a 2,500-foot elev…

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Poet Jennifer Willoughby writes, “I am so busy. I am practicing my new hobby of watching me become someone else. There is so much violence in reconstruction. Every minute is grisly, but I have to participate. I am building what I cannot break.” I wouldn’t describe …