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Tell me what you remember
A summer vignette and a prompt toward deeper noticing
Aug 23 • 
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The Virtue of Peculiarity
Whoever said efficiency was the new idiosyncrasy was seriously disturbed
Aug 9 • 
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July 2025

34 loves for 34 years
A birthday list
Jul 12 • 
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June 2025

On creative nourishment
Finding a creative practice that serves you, not the other way around
Jun 29 • 
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Mad Woman's Manifesto
Spoiler: I memorized, then mimicked, a Wendell Berry poem
Jun 7 • 
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May 2025

Women and the Water: A Reading List
An ode to the ways water heals... and my favorite nautical reads
May 17 • 
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April 2025

A Year of No Vices
The political act of reclaiming time, money, and attention
Apr 26 • 
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Putting two things in the viewfinder
A poetry prompt on metaphor (and more inspiration from Sister Corita Kent)
Apr 13 • 
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March 2025

Muscular & Boisterous
Sister Corita Kent and the feminine urges to garden, resist, create
Mar 22 • 
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I watched the Gabby Petito documentary on Ash Wednesday
Memento mori-ing, and why I need Lent.
Mar 8 • 
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Against Sentimental Poetry
Or, one difference between diary entries and works of art
Mar 1 • 
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February 2025

More honest, less sure
Moana is like poetry (don't fight me on this), and wisdom from a line by Amy Bornman.
Feb 15 • 
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