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Celebrating 2 Years! A Giveaway, New Stuff, & a Peek Forward
“The day turned a corner just then." On attention & the places we've rolled & will roll.
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One Woman's Gaping Maw
Have you ever longed to see a bear in the wild?
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The Art of Bearing What We Bare and What We Bear
See videos from inside Vivian van Gogh
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Deliverance and the Lure
How we connect when we roam, when we live, when we write
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Answers
May we raise up the voices being silenced. May we remember who we are, who we belong to, and what home means.
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5 o'Clock Somewhere by Narina Exelby
"Women in the village are cooking and washing dishes," High Atlas Mountains. "The light is fading fast and I am mirrored in the glass," Lerwick…
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Go Into the Forest and Come Out Completely Different
“You were annoyed you had a heart attack?” “Yeah,” he confirms. “So I was giving it the middle finger by doing that.”
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LGBTQ+ People Are Not Going Back
I want to sing you a song of joy. I want to show you the joy of the beautiful person whose poetry I am sharing in today’s post (and have shared before…
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Poems to Carry in the Blood
"The Cremation of Sam McGee" as part of a community project by Tara Penry
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Eleanor Anstruther's "In Judgement of Others"
Author interview. "Most of my books begin from a point of outrage. I’m really angry about something. Or I want revenge. And then as I explore, I find…
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What I Think of After
Sean Renshaw--I think of how our brains can’t tell the difference between sand between our toes and the spray of a turquoise ocean misting the face in…
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Row Like a Mother
“It’s like the Iditarod on a boat with the chance of drowning, being run down by a freighter, or being eaten by a grizzly bear.” Meet the first…
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