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Michael Painter

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Michael Painter

Land Back. Life Back. Love Back.

Logs slamming in huge waves.

7 min readApr 9, 2024

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Land Back. Life Back. Love Back.

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Pinned

Michael Painter

MASKS

Pity on these centuries and their happy or battered survivors, what we did not do was the fault of no one, steel was missing: we exhausted…

6 min readSep 29, 2023

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MASKS

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Michael Painter

Got Pain?

Deliberately gorging on unhappiness, yours or anyone else’s, is uncomfortable. It can be really disorienting.

6 min readAug 12, 2020

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Got Pain?

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Michael Painter

Are You the River?

For many, the connection between nature and human health can be intuitive or superficial, or sometimes both. We generally know, for…

3 min readApr 23, 2019

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Are You the River?

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Michael Painter

Step Into Christmas

[Reprise author’s note from December 2011 Christmas letter]

4 min readDec 25, 2017

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Step Into Christmas

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Michael Painter

The Specter

It wasn’t until much later that anyone realized I was there or that I was in reality a ferociously determined man. That came much later. So…

5 min readDec 19, 2017

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The Specter

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Michael Painter

What are you so afraid of?

Tonasket, WA

6 min readDec 18, 2017

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What are you so afraid of?

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Michael Painter

Aging Gracefully

[Trigger warning: Multiple references to age, aging, elderly and old people. Strong “get off my lawn” language.]

5 min readDec 18, 2017

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Aging Gracefully

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Michael Painter

Assimilation

It all started months ago pretty innocently. I surfed over to a website sponsored by a big mysterious company — you know, Snowstorm — the…

7 min readDec 18, 2017

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Assimilation

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Michael Painter

My Magi

Oh, my Caspar, my Melchior, my Balthasar!

6 min readAug 25, 2017

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My Magi

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Michael Painter

Michael Painter

Physician, lawyer, Cherokee Nation citizen, gay guy, helping cool humans nurture an abundant future for all. Hint: that future is here, and it's Indigenous.

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