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Mar 8

Rico Lighthouse on empathy, gentleness, and communion

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Rico Lighthouse

Feb 23

Kristy Beachy-Quick on revery, attention, and time regained

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Kristy Beachy-Quick

Mar 15

Amazon, the alphabet, and the conscription of consciousness

Jan 20

Interlude | “Out of the Shadows”Listen now (10 min) | The poetry of Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr., America’s John Keats

Dec 29, 2022

This Changes Everything | Tobias Bank Listen now (34 min) | On origins, infinity, and the dance of ideas (plus: why Thom Yorke and Laurie Anderson are aliens)

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Dec 14, 2022

The pricelessness of personhood | Jeff Chelf Listen now (43 min) | On labor, futility, and the art of being alive

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Nov 29, 2022

The burden of honest work | Jason Hardung Listen now (49 min) | On writing, recovery, and the duty of self-worth

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Nov 19, 2022

Reading like an animal | Brandi Thomas Listen now (45 min) | On attention, instinct, and the language of the observed

Nov 16, 2022

Calling out to ourselves | Robin Walter Listen now (48 min) | On influence, hospitality, and the animal of the mind

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Nov 16, 2022

Time does the deepening | John Flynn Listen now (43 min) | On fear, comfort, and the epistemology of adventure

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Nov 16, 2022

The diversity of change | Julia Goolsby Listen now (41 min) | On infrastructure, ecology, and what lives inside a poem

Nov 15, 2022

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