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Commentary: The wandering road (opens the original)
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We tend to tell the story of a young person's launch as a hero's journey: the hero leaves home, faces trials, conquers something, and returns transformed. Ursula K. Le Guin was wary of that tidy shape. In her essay "The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction," she argued that the hero-with-a-spear story is only one kind of story, and that a life is often better described as a bag, something you carry and fill with whatever you gather along the way. The years after college look a lot like that to me. Nobo
Commentary: Dolly Parton and the Wealth I Want More Of (opens the original)
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I cried in yoga class last week. I've led a yogalates practice with the same group of lovely humans for about 15 years. We've been through a lot together and cried together before, but never about the loss of someone none of us had ever met. Class met the day after Dolly Parton died at age 80.I'm not a huge country music fan, but I'm a fan of all things Dolly. Playing quietly in the background was a playlist of her songs. One class member said, "Oh, there's Dolly," and her face gave away her fee
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