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personal essays on beauty, philosophy, creativity and the slow and quiet process of paying attention.

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  1. Issue · Sep 29, 2026

    A Different Understanding of Time (opens the original)

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    This Week’s Reading: Orlando Chapter 1 Companion piece: Biography of a Dress by Jamaica Kincaid<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="361.56" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iwoi!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F

  2. Issue · Sep 21, 2026

    We Are Reading Orlando by Virginia Woolf (opens the original)

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    Virginia Woolf, like many of us, was deeply preoccupied with the passing of time. It is something she constantly contemplated privately in her diary. She felt hurried by time she wrote, like “life pile[d] up so fast” that she had no “time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.” In her novels, too, clocks represent a threatening presence, and the passing of time is felt as a shock. Woolf escaped this sometimes oppressive chronological linearity by describing the inner worlds o

  3. Issue · Sep 7, 2026

    Respect Your Own Privacy (opens the original)

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    In the opening essay of A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Solnit describes a workshop she gave in the Rockies where one of her students brings in a quote attributed to the pre-socratic philosopher Meno. It reads,“How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?”Solnit writes this in her journal and thinks about it often. I think about it often too.I am not here to yearn over some purer, earlier Internet; I believe that the Internet we crave is still out there,

  4. Issue · Sep 4, 2026

    Book Club Meeting Links <3 (opens the original)

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    Hi friends!Really looking forward to meeting you all and discussing The Hearing Trumpet! Here are the links to the calls. If possible, please RSVP by clicking the time that works best for you :)Sunday 13th September 11:00am UTC Add to your calendarGoogle meeting codeSunday 13th September 8:00pm UTCAdd to your ca

  5. Issue · Aug 26, 2026

    Incoherence as Resistance (opens the original)

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    🌀 Discussion CallIt’s time we pick a date for our group discussion. I know we are all across the globe so I have come up with five different possible dates and times. I will end up picking the two most popular dates and share those in the next newsletter, so make sure to vote before then. All times below are in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time). Convert… R

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