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<!DOCTYPE html>
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<html lang="en">
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<head>
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<meta charset="UTF-8">
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<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
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<title>About Me | Belinda Barnes</title>
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="/styles.css">
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<script defer src="https://analytics.4ort.xyz/script.js" data-website-id="d3ed927c-888a-4a6c-ae5f-0b1c613ddf5b"></script>
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</head>
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<body>
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<header class="hero">
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<h1>About Me</h1>
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<p class="tagline">Driver. Artist. Keeper of Rhythms</p>
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<p class="location">Warren, Michigan • Est. 1965</p>
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</header>
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<nav class="menu">
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<a href="/">Home</a>
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<a href="/first-route.html">My First Route</a>
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<a href="/the-route-of-mistakes.html">The Route of Mistakes</a>
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<a href="/routes.html">The Routes I Drive</a>
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<a href="/painting.html">Watercolors & Jazz</a>
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<a href="/sourdough.html">The Sourdough Starter</a>
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<a href="/about.html">About Me</a>
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</nav>
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<main class="welcome">
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<section>
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<h2>The Morning</h2>
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<p>I wake at 3:45 AM. The house is silent except for the furnace breathing. Coffee grounds measure precisely. Boots polished. Gloves checked for tears. By 4:30, I am walking the depot perimeter, flashlight beam cutting the dark, counting my footsteps like a prayer.</p>
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<p>Thirty-two children depend on the ritual. I do not fail rituals.</p>
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</section>
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<section style="margin-top: 3rem;">
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<h2>The Evening</h2>
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<p>The bus is parked, keys surrendered to the depot clerk. Now I am free to be the woman who paints the sky in cobalt and blood orange. Who listens to Coltrane until the saxophone dissolves into the ceiling. Who kneads dough until the gluten sings.</p>
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<p>The driver serves the route. The artist serves the silence.</p>
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</section>
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<section style="margin-top: 3rem;">
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<h2>The Philosophy</h2>
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<p>Some people chase speed. I chase accuracy. Some seek the new. I deepen the old. A well-worn road is safer than a fresh one. A fermented starter is stronger than instant yeast. A brushstroke guided by listening is truer than one forced by will.</p>
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<p>This is not nostalgia. This is methodology.</p>
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</section>
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<section style="margin-top: 3rem;">
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<h2>Contact</h2>
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<p>If you wish to walk a route with me, bring boots that grip ice. If you wish to discuss the viscosity of watercolor binders, come with samples. If you wish to trade starter cultures, label the jar with your lineage.</p>
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<p>All else is noise.</p>
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</section>
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</main>
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<footer class="footer">
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<a href="/">← Back to Home</a>
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</footer>
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</body>
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</html>
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