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C. S. Mills
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Writer and walker in the world of generation. Author of ‘Drift Gestures’ (The Lune, 2023).

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Polylith is back from hiatus! This end-of-October thinnest-of-times installment arrives bearing an invitation — I hope a few of you will take me up on it.

#towardThePolylith
Polylith 075: A chapel turning
It is an elemental privilege to write and be read. The same to speak and be heard, to listen as another speaks.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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On this fine Bandcamp Friday, consider an unhurried hour of warmly strange ambient music:

#bandcampFriday #ambientMusic #ambient
Music from Eternal Return One, by Polylith
3 track album
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August 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Summer Storms in France, by chris h lynn
2 track album
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September 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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end of summer / last of august
August 31, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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The first of five days of fieldwork on the island. Twelve miles off trail led to two springs, steep valleys flanking the moraine, endless beech thickets. Back along shore for a swim at sunset. Cooked.

#walking #pointTurnstone
A wide sandy beach curves around to the northeast. A forested moraine lies on the horizon.
August 26, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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A week of solitary work on North Manitou Island wraps up. A storm delays the boat, so it continues for now. Damp, thundershaken, sipping tea.

#walking #pointTurnstone #lakeMichigan
A thunderstorm approaches over rough water. At the horizon, a band of clear sky glows peach. The downwind side of a perched dune is smooth and light against a stormy sky. Death camas just coming into bloom, a crab spider waits. A smooth bit of marbled quartzite sits on a rough granite boulder.
August 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Bandcamp Friday-Have a look and listen chrishlynn.bandcamp.com/music
chris h lynn
Chris H. Lynn is a filmmaker and sound artist from Maryland. His sound works have been published on Impulsive Habitat, Verz Imprint, Green Field Recordings, Kandala Records, Plus Timbre and Echomusic...
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August 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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On this fine Bandcamp Friday, consider an unhurried hour of warmly strange ambient music:

#bandcampFriday #ambientMusic #ambient
Music from Eternal Return One, by Polylith
3 track album
polylith.bandcamp.com
August 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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2/2

Very few real books are made for amusement or money. They’re made as containers or incubation chambers for things that we inherit from the past, reconceive in the present, and hope to pass along to present and future generations.

-Robert Bringhurst
August 1, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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1/1

… books, I think, are things that humans make, or try to make, as persistently as birds make nests …

-Robert Bringhurst
August 1, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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With solstice comes Pitcher’s thistle in bloom. The arrival I most anticipate, a sweet friend faithful on the dunes amid long and sometimes grueling days of fieldwork.
June 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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My friends, it is here: The Tarot Podcast has launched!
You can find it on your favorite podcast player, or visit thetarotpodcast.com/subscribe to find out where you can subscribe. And if you are able to support the show, I would be most grateful! patreon.com/thetarotpodcast/membership
Subscribe — THE TAROT PODCAST
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May 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Sunday to Friday

#walking
A single rose stem with fresh crimson petals laying in the sand. A set of coyote tracks approaches from the right, pauses and passes. The same single rose stem, now partially covered in sand. The petals are duller and beginning to dry. Rain has erased any footprints.
May 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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For your consideration on this Bandcamp Friday: Music from Eternal Return One, just released in April. Warm, meditative ambient music toward memorious futures.

#bandcampFriday #ambientMusic
Music from Eternal Return One, by Polylith
3 track album
polylith.bandcamp.com
May 2, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Who — ?
I see.
April 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Day four of work at the old lifesaving station on North Manitou Island, where flickers and starlings, juncos, mergansers, killdeer, gulls, eagles, snow buntings and sparrows outnumber me ten-thousand to one. It’s good this way for a week here and there.
An old boathouse painted white with cedar shingles for a roof, converted into simple living quarters. A bay window looking out on the water (out of frame) stands in place of the big door they would wheel boats through. Blue sky, morning sunlight.
April 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Listen again: Beyond Encounters / 14th April 2025

Playing tracks by Hiram, Polylith, Awaya and Hiroko Komiya Chris H. Lynn.

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April 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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'Music from Eternal Return One' has been out for a week, and I'm happy to hear this strange but warm album has landed on a few stereos.

Apt sounds for full-moon strolls, fitting accompaniment to the nightly frog chorus, good music for contemplation in the lamplight, etc.

#ambientMusic #bandcamp
Music from Eternal Return One, by Polylith
3 track album
polylith.bandcamp.com
April 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Tune into a new Beyond Encounters on
@campradio.bsky.social

on Monday 04/14/25. Time: 12pm EST 18h00 CET ! Featuring tracks from @matthewhiram.bsky.social , @cscottmills.com , and Awaya ! Excerpts from Frequency live in Athens and much more!
April 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Album release!

On this crisp spring morning, I offer "Music from Eternal Return One", a threefold piece of warm ambient music for slow transits and phasing tides.

Listen over on Bandcamp:
polylith.bandcamp.com/album/music-...

#ambientMusic
Music from Eternal Return One, by Polylith
3 track album
polylith.bandcamp.com
April 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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A note to say:

I’ll be releasing a new album this coming Friday over on Bandcamp. “Music from Eternal Return One” is an hourlong ambient ramble. Can’t wait to share it!

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#ambientMusic
Polylith
Words and sounds in the world of generation. Land, myth and the imagination. Find occasional audio projects here, and everything else on my website:
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March 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Listening to a podcast episode about Proclus’ noetic triads while I mud and tape drywall. Tension of opposites.
March 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Further experiments in ink — today a black with cool undertones made from carbonized wild grapevines.

#ink #pigment
A photo of a circle of wet black ink spread on a frosted glass slab. A clear glass muller sits at the center. A photo of a small bottle of black ink labeled "BC02:01 VINE" sitting among ink-stained art supplies on a desk. Next to the bottle is a scrap of smooth paper with black brushstrokes.
March 1, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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The February installment of Polylith arrives on a big south wind.

This letter is a particularly personal one, about my work and the US federal hiring freeze, about morale and resistance, healing work and creativity amid collapse.

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Polylith 072: Small graces
Winter has turned here on the peninsula. As I write, snowmelt drips from the eaves under a blue sky and the impressive drifts that line paths and driveways s...
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February 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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RIP Pierre Joris 💜
FLORENT TONIELLO: Now, about the target audience: who would you say you want to touch? PIERRE JORIS: Listen, a target is something you shoot at. I don't shoot at anybody, so in that sense I don't have a target audience. I mean, of course, I'd love everybody to read me, but I'm a realist. 246, or at best 863 people, roughly, on average, something of that order for a book of poems? Maybe a few more at some point. But the important thing is for the work to be there & available. If it is needed, it will be picked up. I have that kind of confidence that people, young people — & I've seen that during the years I was teaching — are looking for things & will find what they need (& for me teaching is exactly that: not imparting knowledge you have & they don't, but laying out techniques enabling both the students & you to find out things you didn't know but need to know or didn't even know you needed).
February 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM