chaos & awe
chaos & awe is a newsletter that explores the awe and chaos of life
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The amnesiac smell of spring (opens the original)
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How to build a poem (with your friends) (opens the original)
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This weekend, the three of us were given the gift of a surreal escape to a bach in Charteris Bay. The intention was to write together; to create together. From a simple kōrero (conversation) around friendships and love came a deeper yearning and question: what is our praxis of love? How do we show up in both platonic and romantic relationships? What new visions of love await us?From these conversations we were inspired to write a poem together, allowing the chaos and liminality to inspire our cr
29, 30, 31 (opens the original)
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Birthdays are an interesting time. They can be pretentious as much as they are sincere. However, they may be even more devilishly aligned when writers commune with their past, present and future selves.What happens when three friends reflect on the throes of anticipating their thirties, living at the cusp of it, and newly settling into it?Here are our unbridled, honest journal reflections at twenty-nine, thirty and thirty-one.With love,Pok, Claudia and Laura<a class="image-link image2 is-v
The shape of absence (opens the original)
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