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Frances Ha: Female Adulthood As Portrayed In The Moving Image
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Eat Your Memories
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To The Restaurant That Ruined Mother’s Day Surprise: I love You.
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To The Restaurant That Ruined Mother’s Day Surprise: I love You.
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The Courage to Suffer: Viktor Frankl’s Formula for a Meaningful Life
The love that Frankl writes about isn’t bound by physicality
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In Honor of Female Friendship This Galentine’s Day
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What Would You Grow In Your Garden?
Instead, it is a tension in the air, a sensation
Field Notes On Being
The newsletter is a space for reflections on culture, personal growth, and showing up meaningfully in the world. Think of it as a living archive of curiosity, connection, and discovery.
What Are Your Top 10 Feel-Good Comfort Shows and Movies?
I am glad to have come of age in the tail end of cable TV. Life back then was unencumbered
In Honor of Female Friendship This Galentine’s Day
But for some of us, our greatest love stories will be afternoons spent running errands side by side each other,
What Would You Grow In Your Garden?
Instead, it is a tension in the air, a sensation capable of contracting and expanding into the realms of what
When It All Feels Too Much…
It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it. Life can sometimes feel like it’s
Attention Is Generosity: Why Our Attention Span is ‘Decreasing’
The French philosopher Simone Weil meditated in her notebook, “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
How Do You Define Success?
We have to put up with the messy middle. And, often, when we do, it may just surprise us how
Inspirational Comics: Whatever You Dream You Can Do, Begin It
Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it!
“I Suck” and Maybe That’s Okay—Consistency Over Perfection
Should perfection even be your aim? Or is our definition of perfect, like many things, overused and overrated?
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Suffering Inside Our Own Mind: Seneca, Perception, and Reality
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