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Out from Under Us

Out from Under Us

“May your mind inhabit life with the sureness with which your body inhabits the world.” —John O’Donohue There were no lines. No anxious cattle-herding. We walked right into the bright, clean school gymnasium. It had been transformed into a site of efficiency and safety—and clearlyread more

Fall Back

Fall Back

If you’re reading this at the approximate date/time it’s been posted (Monday, November 4, 2024), it’s a slightly brighter morning, and maybe you feel a bit more rested. No one seems to remember these aspects of falling back into daylight savings time, which went intoread more

Bone Deep

Bone Deep

we will wear new bones again. we will leave these rainy days, break out through another mouth into sun and honey time. worlds buzz over us like bees, we be splendid in new bones. other people think they know how long life is how strongread more

Ayurvedic Alignment: Self-Care Practices for Deep Winter Renewal

Ayurvedic Alignment: Self-Care Practices for Deep Winter Renewal

Hosted by Jillian Pransky Seasonal alignment is a pillar of health and healing in both the Ayurvedic and yoga traditions. When we acknowledge the qualities and elements at play in our external and internal environments, we can make choices for how we eat, move, andread more

Normal Again

Normal Again

“Things I’ll Do Once I Feel Normal Again” This is the theme I started journaling on last week, *|FNAME|*, when I noticed that my daily entries were a little more doom-and-gloom than I felt comfortable with. I was going on week 9 or 10 ofread more

Light Layers

Light Layers

A few years ago, I KonMari’d my wardrobe and eliminated the need for separate “seasonal” storage. My primary motivation was saving space (I was in my smallest-to-date NYC apartment, where the only space for a dresser was inside my closet, so every square inch counted!),read more

Goals, Crushed

Goals, Crushed

pity this busy monster, manunkind,   not. Progress is a comfortable disease: [. . .]  listen: there’s a hell of a good universe next door; let’s go —E. E. Cummings My four years as an undergraduate in Cambridge scarred me in many ways. I’ve softenedread more

Begin Again

Begin Again

Beginning ended, this is how the end begins.  We wake in the other world, sky inside our eyelid.  Lens swivelled inward, the sea’s volcanic vents Leach into the brain. Here is self’s jungle ajar.  [. . .] The day is perfect. There is only one.read more

Spring 2023 Rest & Reset

Spring 2023 Rest & Reset

April 14-23, 2023 Register *Please note the revised schedule as of 4/4/23* I don’t do cleanses. And yet, my body—the miraculous thing that it is—is always cleansing all on its own, through the natural processes of detoxification and digestion it’s designed to do to stayread more

Spiced Cauliflower Leek Soup

Spiced Cauliflower Leek Soup

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