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Catie of the Southern Wild

Wondering how to live at the eleventh hour, and what's for breakfast?

Newsletter · By Catie Payne · Official site

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Sep 6, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 6, 2026

    11 pathways for change when it all feels pointless (opens the original)

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    This is part two of my Archetypes of Peace & Change writings inspired by Ethan Hughes, for those moments you just don’t know what to do. Part one lives here.<div class=

  2. Issue · Aug 20, 2026

    Archetypes of Peace & Change: Part One ~ When the Panda Doesn’t Help (opens the original)

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    Four of us go to the World Press Photo Exhibition in Ballarat, where an earnest attendant greets us at the door.“The images can be confronting. Take care of yourselves.”Pretty sure I can handle it, I think, my smile glancing off her left ear as I turn towards a huge photograph printed on vinyl and stretched across steel scaffolding at least 20 feet high.A woman in a headscarf clings to an almighty stallion who rears on hind legs, eyes rolling, mouth foam

  3. Issue · Aug 14, 2026

    On Slowing Down & Looking Up ~ Reskillience Ep. 75 with Kirsten Bradley (opens the original)

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    “In a time of fracturing seasons, when everything’s going awry, there are still cycles that we can set our hearts by.” It’s Kirsten Bradley of Milkwood! She’s writing a new book about the moon, penning love letters to parsley and currawongs on Substack, and here to share all about her daily rhythms in lutruwita, Tasmania. Oh, what a lovely conversation.Within 🌙 AI or not to AIMorning routines! Morning stargazing!Tea choicesMoving to lutruwita/TassieFish

  4. Issue · Aug 5, 2026

    Moving house, XXL testicles & a proper slew of news (opens the original)

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    Hey silverbeets and swedehearts,I write to you from a sundrenched armchair in a straw hat and dirty workpants, faint whiffs of carp rising from my fingertips after spending the morning weeding and feeding the plants with a homemade fish ferment. Too lazy to take off my gardening gear. Too likely I’ll head back out and barrow manure or slash away at the forest of seeding rocket and dill spilling out of the raised beds and taking over the yard. (I find it charming, but prospective buyers might be

  5. Issue · Jul 24, 2026

    Brain fog pales in comparison. (opens the original)

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    My parents-in-law say there’s a ghost in the cottage, stealing keys and remote controls and, lately, a whole stack of kindling. And it wouldn’t surprise me given the fog.It arrived one night last week, padding across the fields on silent paws and settling over the town.<sou

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