HeyJaredHeart Before the Course
Heart Before the Course is the ongoing writing project of Abbey von Gohren to explore the weight we feel in living and moving and having our being in this world, while perhaps being made for (also) other worlds.
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- Sep 10, 2026
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- Jul 12, 2026
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Here’s to Ivan Illich! (opens the original)
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100 Tiny Fires -- (opens the original)
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Love as a Ladder (opens the original)
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Note: this missive is sent out to all of you, but it will resonate with some more than others. I wrote it partly in continuation of this experience of my own trying to reckon with language and partly as a kind of response to some fellow sojourners who are also reckoning with language. They are links throughout as clues, follow them if you will. I would love to hear from anyone who is touched — call for response at the end. Love does not scale as a system does. Nor is it for climbers of the socia
Wending, Rending, Mending -- (opens the original)
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