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Fly Bravely delivers storytelling about observations of everyday life, moments of magnitude (grief, loss, celebration), and the history of NYC. Each newsletter features a story + a photo of the week.
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Dispatch from the U-Haul Art Fair, NYC (opens the original)
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A Ghost from The Bowery | The Alabama Hotel (opens the original)
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My friend Catherine Burns just launched her Substack, Thin Places: “locations on Earth where the veil between the material world and the unseen is thinner.” They’re places where something seems to shift, where the distance between one version of our lives and another becomes remarkably small. I hadn’t heard of the term Thin Places before Catherine introduced it to me, but I have always found intrigue in mysterious places that hold history. When <a href="https://thethinplaces.substack.com/p/welco
My 9/11 Story (opens the original)
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The Night Gloria Steinem Gave me Three Gold Bracelets (opens the original)
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I Never Noticed That Before... (opens the original)
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The book on my nightstand right now is On Looking by Alexandra Horowitz. In it, she takes a series of walks with experts from artists to geologists to see how they see and perceive the city (mostly her own neighborhood) differently. I’m only about 1/3 of the way through it, but so far it’s fantastic. It really speaks to how I live in and observe the city.The first walk Alexandra takes is with her young son. As a toddler, he’s both closer to the ground and innately more curious about his surround
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