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Sealing the golden door behind us
A quintessential American poem offers an alternative to the nativism on display at the RNC
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Reclaiming my time at the threshold of another new season
The soft joy of saying goodbye—and hello—in the middle of a complicated life
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Six months of You Are Here
A roundup of highlights from a half-year of meanderings
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Place Poem: "Snow, Aldo" by Kate DiCamillo
Surprising weather as an opportunity to stand still and look up
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Everything everywhere all at once
Time and its ruthless limitations don't always feel like gifts; but they can be if we let them
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"Cold as the moon" on Caucus week
Hell didn't freeze over in Iowa, but it sure was chilly
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Vacation homes, voter fraud, and Mary Oliver
Bending the rules of democracy in a wealthy Cape Cod beach town
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Anyway, it's about old friends
Mixed feelings, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and a peek at 2024
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Place Poem: "December Moon" by May Sarton
And some wintry place picks for your consideration
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Unto my books so good to turn
An ode to built-in bookshelves, the TARDIS, and Emily Dickinson
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Place Poem: "Perhaps the World Ends Here" by Joy Harjo
Plus some Thanksgiving place picks
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Place Poem: "The World is Too Much With Us" by William Wordsworth
And some place picks for a week when we're all a little, or a lot, "out of tune"
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