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“The weird thing was that we had just been learning about Malala, and how she got shot in the face, and then we were hiding next to the bookshelf because someone might have a gun and be coming into our school.” My daughters—6 and 9 years old—were hunched over their instant ramen…
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I found this reflection on the Iraq War, from a photojournalist who covered it, to be so moving (not to mention the images that accompany the reflection). The older I get, the more rabidly anti-war I feel. This can’t be the way. I’m finding this elder-led climate action
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Shut up and repairListen now (6 min) | At dinner Maya announced that some boys in her class had gotten in a fist fight in the hallway outside of their classroom door. I imagined the hooks with their chaotic jumble of backpacks and coats, the bin on wheels filled with lunchboxes, and then a blur of…
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5 questions for writer, professor, and griever Laurel Braitman
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My mom turns 75 next week so this is a letter to her. I thought the rest of you might get a kick out of reading it, too. Dear Momma… Happy birthday, you…
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I am really digging the podcast How to Be a Better Human - check out the interviews with creator Cord Jefferson and therapist Dr. Orna Guralnik to…
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This newsletter is such a foundation of the life that I love. Please consider subscribing or upgrading to a paid subscription if it feeds you. A couple…
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Wouldn’t a conversation between James Bridle and Jenny Odell be magnificent? Also I’m reading Jenny Odell’s new book on time. Maybe we should do another…
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a poem about community
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This searching, sociologically-astute read on how the pandemic impacted us all really made me think and feel a lot of things. Plus I just love oral…
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5 questions for poet, podcast host, and peacemaker Pádraig Ó Tuama
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Fun fact: nearly 12,000 of you subscribe to this newsletter. When I sold my first book at 25 years old, there was a bidding war and at the end of the…
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the examined family

figuring out how to be and raise ethical, joyful humans in beautiful, horrible times
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