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The kind you’re born with, the kind you choose, the kind that teach Catholic school
By Our ReadersOctober 2021One must find the source within one’s own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking — a detour, error.
By Hermann HesseAugust 2021When I was young, I lived for what I thought of as “lyrical moments,” when the details of life were suddenly heightened and approached the transcendent. . . . Of course, if you live long enough, you start thinking more and more not about the lyrical but rather about time. . . . I am living to stay alive.
By Richard McCannJune 2021When we went back outside, Tom had stopped sawing and was repotting the bare vine. “You never know,” he said. He’s right, of course. We don’t know what the world will bring, what power lies in a salvaged tomato plant, what we all do to build back, survive, thrive.
By Heather E. GoodmanApril 2021After work we would be headed to Smitty’s Bar, where the twangy music would kick up, and I’d try to find the courage to dance in public.
By Doug CrandellMarch 2021A stolen letter, a posthumous package, a Christmas card from a stranger
By Our ReadersMarch 2021Ropes pulled tight at the huge plastic tarp / we tied from the house to the trees / like a sail, in case it rained. / It rained. I became fifty. Then the sun shone, / then the moon.
By Kenneth HartFebruary 2021A trip to the Antarctic, a 500-mile pilgrimage, a two-hour bus ride
By Our ReadersJanuary 2021I first met Nico at a gathering of country-club types. We two misfits clearly didn’t belong at such a party, where the other guests had doused themselves in so much cologne that we were forced to escape our host’s home to catch our breath on the freshly cut grass.
By Robert McGeeDecember 2020I think of that ancient time when the sea was cut off from the ocean, how low it sank, the way the rivers carved canyons to replenish it. Such beauty often requires a kind of devastation. Maybe the saddest landscapes are always the most beautiful.
By Melissa FebosSeptember 2020Personal, political, provocative writing delivered to your doorstep every month—without a single ad.
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