Circuitous Wanderings
Maybe all who wander are a bit lost
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Art Connects
Prologue: What war strips from us, what it takes from cradled arms, it leaves in exchange a deep recess. What people choose to fill in that empty space depends on many factors. I feel immense gratitude that my great-aunt chose to fill her void with art. Because art can be dangerous. Incendiary. Irreverent. Illuminating. As
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Memento Mori
Kutná Hora, Czech Republic | 2024 I recently visited the Sedlec Ossuary in the sleepy town of Kutná Hora, a fifty-five-minute train ride outside of Prague. The ossuary sits beneath the quaint Church of All Saints, a vestige of the Middle Ages that is still in use today. Surrounding the church rests the modest Sedlec
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My Condolences to the Phrase “I’m Sorry for Your Loss”
In her book Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole, Susan Cain describes how American rituals seldom allow us to express our grief in connective, meaningful ways. This, Cain explains, is captured so obviously in America’s condolence cards. Often these cards fume with underlying notes of shallow positivity, overlooking that the bereaved must now
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The Dating Universe
August, 2022 | Songdo, Incheon, Korea In 2022, meeting eligible single men for long-term, monogamous dating feels impossible, or as one friend phrased it, “like picking through trash.” As I claw through the dating apps, a popular if not absolutely necessary tool to navigate the ever-expanding dating universe, many modern Millennials have resigned from the
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