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Publisher orionmagazine.org Latest book = THE FIRST KENNEDYS, plus 5 more. I read run yoga ski hike paddle strum swim. Crime fiction + cocktails newsletter = Blood & Whiskey 🥃 👇 bloodandwhiskey.substack.com
"December can hurt more than other months. Repeated rituals permit a magical thinking. We say, last (or last, last, last) year, at this time, our dead were still here."
Samantha Hunt on the memories we revive each December. Read: orionmagazine.org/article/ghos...
Words of hope as you head into the New Year from @nickolebrown.bsky.social:
"Make yourself the eye of all that’s rushing past—you can be your own eye of the storm, each of us a single eye in these many, many storms."
Read: orionmagazine.org/article/one-...
Paintings (!) by Dennis Wojtkiewicz.
an image of a hand holding open a magazine page with a headline reading "Troubled Water." the page background is a diaphanous shred of algae in a glass tank.
last one ... I can't imagine a better end to the year than having this essay in @orionmagazine.bsky.social, a dream byline for as long as I've been Doing Essay: about the bizarre creatures, imaginary and otherwise, of the Gowanus Canal — my favorite toxic waste site. in print for now.
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