Moody Places
Reflections on the inner and outer landscape. Stories of places that evoke and inspire.
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On Men (opens the original)
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Contribution > Consumption (opens the original)
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Day 1 Medford, MAThis morning, I woke early with Milly and instead of just letting her out back while I made coffee, I went outside with her and sat beneath the night sky for a while. The hum of the city was faint and distant, but the crickets chirped and the morning birds sang. Smokebush, witch hazel, and tart cherry beside the house have created an enclosure, a living observatory from which I watched the Pleiades glow. One, two, three satellites zipped by. After a while I started to notice eac
Chance (opens the original)
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On Letting the Moods in: Revisited (opens the original)
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Dear Readers, This week, we’re going back to the archives, specifically to this post from two years ago when I re-started Moody Places: On Letting the Moods in. It’s still relevant—maybe even more so. And when I look at the date, it strikes me that I wrote and sent this out during the same week two years ago in the height of summer. It should come as no surprise at this point that my thoughts and curiosities and moods ebb and flow with the seasons, that there’s
Parallel Worlds: Audio Read Aloud (opens the original)
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I’m trying something new. Here, you can listen to me reading my most recent essay aloud to the sound of morning birds in Shelburne, Massachusetts. Please let me know what you think. -CalebLeave a commentSubscribe now<a class="button primary" href="https://calebdean.substack.com/p/parallel-worlds-audio-read-aloud
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