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https://mileskim.substack.com/p/magical-words-inspiration

Miles Kim meditates on the meaning of "Inspiration" through scenes from nature, art, and life.

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https://robertsdavidn.substack.com/p/we-dont-mean-to-but-we-do-what-parents

David Roberts shares stories of parental comments that misfire.

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https://carolineeliz.substack.com/p/who-are-you-no-longer-willing-to

Caroline shares a reflection on who she’s no longer willing to be.

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Thanks again for doing this, Mikey!

https://www.practicespace.blog/p/no-21-you-died-so-what

Andrei shares a valuable lesson he learned while getting his butt kicked playing Dark Souls.

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https://open.substack.com/pub/junegirvin/p/have-headache-will-lie-down?r=1isob5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

June Girvin discusses the reality of migraine and wonders why some people trivialise it.

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https://open.substack.com/pub/benmonaco/p/book-breakdown-where-the-crawdads?r=fvyxf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Ben Monaco breaks down the first chapter of Where The Crawdads Sing and explores the author's beautiful prose.

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https://lindseywritesbooks.substack.com/p/if-walls-could-talk

Lindsey Lamar writes a fiction autobiography from the perspective of the historical Ford's Theatre building.

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OMG! This sounds amazing!

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Thank you so much! It was so fun and challenging to write

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https://kevinlatorre.substack.com/p/the-forever-reformation

Kevin LaTorre writes about the pursuit of literary and Christian perfection—with a digression into the novelist Eugene Volodazkin—to find only that it is endless and regenerating.

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https://open.substack.com/pub/johnhalbrooks/p/poetry-will-change-you?r=kyg3a&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

John Halbrooks thinks that the best arguments for the importance of poetry are over two thousand years old.

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https://uses.substack.com/p/shivering-memory

Sal Randolph considers the slow paintings of new.shiver and how the experience of art transmutes into memory.

Thank you!

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https://open.substack.com/pub/terryfreedman/p/experiments-in-style-another-point?r=18suih&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

I'm running a project in which I write the same story in a multitude of ways, and this is one of the most recent essays.

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Thanks Mikey! https://tomfish.substack.com/p/croatia-diaries-the-toaster-of-vindication

Tom Fish encounters earthquakes, downpours, and a particularly vindictive toaster in Zagreb.

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https://sheiladembowski.substack.com/p/discovering-serendipity

Sheila Dembowski discovers serendipity through a chance encounter with a former student in a most unlikely setting.

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https://subverse.substack.com/p/the-curator-no-25-the-secret-history

Natalie argues why there will never, ever be another The Secret History and all your dark academia reading recommendations are garbage.

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https://buildinghope.substack.com/p/talking-back-to-walden-aa1

In the first of a yearlong monthly series, "Talking Back to Walden," Julie explores a beloved classic to argue for more ecstatic immersion in the world.

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https://www.caroehenry.com/p/daughters-lament

Caro Henry’s elegiac poem about her mother’s death.

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