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- The World Longs for More Poets of the Everyday Dec 16-- In this poetic piece, Deepa Iyer misses the little connecting moments in our everyday lives – how we don’t seem to listen to one another or even see one another: “It is the ache of loneliness that persists even in the largest crowds, the dissonance of a human connection lost to relentless pace.” As a poet, she wonders about holding ...
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- Tracy Cochran: Coming Home to Yourself Dec 14-- Editorial Director of Parabola magazine and author of Presence: The Art of Being at Home in Yourself shares one nourishing story after another. In one, she speaks of her 93-year-old father: “He was going to make dinner for my sister and I, and had to keep resting, having oxygen. When I tried to help, he said, ‘Tracy, the secret of ...
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- Ancestors in Focus Dec 9-- The “Descendants Project” amplifies the voices of Native Peoples whose ancestors were photographed over a hundred years ago, one of whom is Shawnee Real Bird. She grew up on a reservation, and “wondered what I would connect with that could become a portal to the old way of life I longed for.” Shawnee searches to fill the gap in the ...
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