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Miriam Rieck

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Writer | Photographer | Mystic Elder
Exploring becoming, elderhood, and the spaces in between

Miriam Rieck is a writer, photographer, and quiet observer of the thresholds that shape a life. Her work is rooted in the spaces where identity softens, where certainty unravels, and where something more honest begins to emerge.

She writes about becoming, about elderhood, about relationships that do not fit inside conventional language, and about the slow, often uncomfortable work of returning to oneself. Her voice is grounded, reflective, and occasionally edged with dry humor, offering readers not instruction but recognition.

Miriam lives a nomadic life in a Class C RV, accompanied by her Dogue de Bordeaux, Roux. From this shifting landscape, she cont
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The Book was finished. The Becoming wasn't

When I published On Becoming: Essays for Life’s Later Chapters, I knew I wasn't writing a book about arriving anywhere. The title itself should have warned me. Becoming is a verb. It implies movement, uncertainty, and the rather inconvenient possibility that just when you think you understand yourself, some previously hidden piece rises to the surface and asks to be examined.

Still, I think some pa Read more of this blog post »
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"September has always felt more like a beginning to me than January. January arrives with all that manufactured urgency about resolutions, reinvention and becoming some allegedly improved version of ourselves before we have even taken down the hol..." Read more of this blog post »
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