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for the love of lowly things (for mary)

by Céline Chuang February 21, 2019

I knew Mary Oliver's work well enough to mourn her, to recall the way some poems snag you with their fishhook beauty and won’t let you go until you have reckoned with them. Perhaps most of all, the sacred imperative to give your whole self to a place and time—the endless and proper work of paying attention.

Creative Risks

by Brianna Van Dyke February 14, 2019

It's scary to take creative risks, but I believe these risks help remind us to play and to stay vulnerable, nimble, and curious in our work.

I'll Leave the Light on for You

by Judith Dupree February 12, 2019

I have lived a long life in a world too few would recognize now. I reckon, by today’s standards, it was “old fashioned.” Simplistic? We managed to live with an ingrained sense of simplicity, of sufficiency. Our lives defied any particular sort of accumulation.