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What do you keep stitched beside your heart?
Lincoln's greatcoat, American wound care, and a blessing for the menders.
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An Unlikely Awe
Yet another Substack about the weirdness of a total eclipse - but not in the way you might think.
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When your demons come, feed them bread
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What do you keep stitched beside your heart?
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Taking Tea with the Trees
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In a World of Californians, Be the Carpathia
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An Unlikely Awe
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Making Meditation: A Complicated Inheritance
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The Unbearable Lightness of a Southern Winter
Fumbling our ragged, resilient way into spring.
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Phantom Pains
Feeling into the spaces where we end and the rest of the world begins.
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Making Meditation: A Complicated Inheritance
4,788 squares, 4,788 prayers.
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CHRONOCHROMES: Cosmic Latte
The aggregate color of the universe is kind of beige – for now.
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The Good Ship Dolores
On shiplap, heart pine, asbestos, and a loosey-goosey grasp on sanity.
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Taking Tea with the Trees
Creating commonplace rituals in an effort to *not* die (right now)
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Just a Pinch
A camp story to lull the summer to sleep
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What Kind of Magpie
What Kind of Magpie
Sharing small things that catch the light. Where nature meets the handmade. Musings for the curious. “What is a recipe for sauerkraut doing in my notebook? What kind of magpie keeps this notebook?” - Joan Didion
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