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December 2024

Stopping by Woods: On Returning to Intention
In our family, I like to think that we will always have time for kittens, for our dogs, for marmalade and toast, for picnics, for stopping by the woods…
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Luigi, the world has staggered outside itself for you. What are we thinking?
Hey There Luigi, What's it like in New York City?
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The Body Won’t Stop Keeping the Score
Our bodies lilt and fray with the greens and mango smoothies we pour into them, and with the froth of story we tell ourselves.
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The Gift: Living With Open Hands
In the beginning, I thought I was asking for help. Now, I know that I am building a castle, and the gift is everyone who comes along and builds the…
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November 2024

I Was Raised on Trad Wife Food
I want to say to these young women as I said to myself at eighteen: I am my own shepherd. I shall not want. I will walk out of the valley of the shadow…
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How We Walk Through Fire
We arc and grand and sing and wonder here at the end of the world, hoping to keep it all going, sundered from dark, ready for wild.
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Green Boots: The Story of the Mountain
Let us all step onto our mountain, swim our rivers, do our training, live wild, open our hands to blessing.
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October 2024

We Women Are So Beautiful
I would like to live in a world where we women learn to love our bodies: short, tall, fat, thin, in wheelchairs, old, gray-haired...This is our one…
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We Live in Noise
The imagination is how we find our way toward cultural transformation...we are threading our way toward stories that might change the world, but we need…
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Mothers & Goodbyes
When I meet someone who does not have a mother, I know that person...In the darkness of my motherless life, I rose up to mother myself. I created the…
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