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How to Apologize: Reflections on Forgiveness, Self-Forgiveness, and the Paradox of Doing the Right Thing
How to Apologize: Reflections on Forgiveness, Self-Forgiveness, and the Paradox of Doing the Right Thing

“It’s permitted to receive solace for whatever you did or didn’t do, pitiful, beautiful human.”

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Roxane Gay on Loving vs. Being in Love and the Mark of a Soul Mate
Roxane Gay on Loving vs. Being in Love and the Mark of a Soul Mate

“It isn’t perfect, not at all. It doesn’t need to be. It is, simply, what fills you up.”

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The Half-Life of Hope
The Half-Life of Hope

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What Rises from the Ruins: Katherine Anne Porter on the Power of the Artist and the Function of Art in Human Life
What Rises from the Ruins: Katherine Anne Porter on the Power of the Artist and the Function of Art in Human Life

“We understand very little of what is happening to us at any given moment.”

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How to Love the World More: George Saunders on the Courage of Uncertainty
How to Love the World More: George Saunders on the Courage of Uncertainty

“In a world full of people who seem to know everything, passionately, based on little (often slanted) information, where certainty is often mistaken for power, what a relief it is to be in the company of someone confident enough to stay unsure (that is, perpetually curious).”

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Yellow Butterfly: A Moving Wordless Story About War, Hope, and Keeping the Light Alive
Yellow Butterfly: A Moving Wordless Story About War, Hope, and Keeping the Light Alive

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Ursula K. Le Guin on Change, Menopause as Rebirth, and the Civilizational Value of Elders
Ursula K. Le Guin on Change, Menopause as Rebirth, and the Civilizational Value of Elders

“Into the space ship, Granny.”

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Kate Sessions and the Devotion to Delight: The Forgotten Woman Who Covered California with Trees and Flowers
Kate Sessions and the Devotion to Delight: The Forgotten Woman Who Covered California with Trees and Flowers

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Look Up: The Illustrated Story of Astronomer Henrietta Leavitt, Who Laid the Groundwork for Measuring the Universe
Look Up: The Illustrated Story of Astronomer Henrietta Leavitt, Who Laid the Groundwork for Measuring the Universe

How a brilliant woman rose against the tide of her time to fathom the mysteries of space.

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How to Grow Re-enchanted with the World: A Salve for the Sense of Existential Meaninglessness and Burnout
How to Grow Re-enchanted with the World: A Salve for the Sense of Existential Meaninglessness and Burnout

A shimmering reminder that “the magic is of our own conjuring.”

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