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A Chronicle of Grief
Just as every love has a unique quality, character, texture, so does every loss.
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Letter 10: To forgive yourself
Remorse can feel like a shield against past mistakes, but if we dare to set it down, how much more clearly might we see the path ahead?
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After the Body Says No
What happens when survival skills give way to natural wisdom in an unnatural world.
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Passing Through Portals: Navigating Grief, Life, and Love
How can recognizing the violent tides of our time help us chart our way to a better future?
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Scuttlebutt - ancient and modern
As the world changes at an unprecedented rate, perhaps we can learn from what is written in stone.
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Hadestown Review: singing how the world could be, in spite of the way it is
What a modern folk opera about Orpheus and Eurydice can teach us about cruelty, care, and the fragile work of hope.
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Still Too Close
A cup of tea, a cold night, and a stranger who stayed too long. A body conditioned by experience moves through the choreography of staying safe.
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3 | Loving the Least of These While Working for Justice with Martha Hennessy and Dr. Cornel West
Martha Hennessy and Dr. Cornel West reflect on the legacy of the Catholic Worker movement and the ongoing call to comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable, and disarm the world with love.
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Thunder on the Keyboard
Sometimes the most powerful music is the kind that proves you wrong.
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A Flower or a Weed?
What thrives in one place might be unwelcome in another. Sometimes it’s not who you are, but where you are that decides — what blooms in one garden gets pulled up by the roots in another.
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If you wish upon a… locomotive?
Dreams can light the way, but if they’re only about the finish line, they often leave us stranded. Purpose, on the other hand, carries you forward — even when the dream falls short.
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Find a Penny
The tactile history of coins and the fading art of the coin toss—how a simple flip can uncover our deepest desires.
🛤️ What the Road Said
A librarian's reading of Cleo Wade's What the Road Said, in which a child meets the road and asks the question at the edge of any beginning: how do you move forward when you don't know the way? The road offers no map — only companionship in motion, and a way of trusting that direction can
Read the note ↗🌳 A Requiem for a Live Oak
Artist Steve Parker's Funeral for a Tree, made after a 65-year-old live oak in his yard died of oak wilt. He cut the trunk into circular slices and turned them into playable records encoded with birdsong from the species that once roosted in its branches — a slow memorial where wood, air a
Read the note ↗⭐ Starling
An ethereal star-spirit journeys back to Istanbul for one final celebration — her birthday, with her grieving family. Tender and imaginative, the animated short follows her through winding streets and unexpected detours, holding a liminal moment between worlds where sorrow and love sit tog
Read the note ↗🏙️ A Megacity Remade by Speed
In his photographs of Chongqing, Ximeng Tu captures both a rapidly changing skyline and the emotional terrain of transformation. Grand infrastructure looms over street vendors and stray stairways; green space yields to grey. In the gaps, he finds people improvising daily life in the midst
Read the note ↗🤍 John Berger on Tenderness
A luminous, slow-burning conversation between John Berger and Michael Silverblatt, ranging from WWI trenches to mountain peasants, marionettes to motorcycles. At its centre is tenderness — considered less as a sentiment than as an act of freedom, a refusal to judge, a way of staying human
Read the note ↗🎶 The Sound of the Uilleann Pipes
Feel the soft, mournful hum of the Irish pipes — quieter and gentler than their better-known Highland cousins — as a series of players bring them to life. Fragments of performance and tradition are intercut to form a conversation with the instrument itself: its history, its design, and the
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