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O, My America!
What a Sad, Sad Land
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Lawrence Bush
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My Buried Boat
My Buried Boat From time to time, wrecked ships surface on Cape Cod’s Nauset Beach. They work their way up, a single plank pickled by the sea or the…
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Andrea Clardy
9
Mother's Day
Mother’s Day is so complicated for so many of us. A long time ago a friend of mine, in her twenties, lost her husband very suddenly. Every day for a…
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Esther Cohen
6
A Paean to Noticing
There are different kinds of noticing. My favorite is worth sharing, I hope, because it is useful and smart and also really cool. Aid workers were sent…
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Wendy Saul
2
Not Necessarily the News
Sometime during the pandemic I stopped watching “news” on television. Might have been earlier than that, maybe closer to the 2016 election. I don’t…
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Jessica de Koninck
Meanwhile, in the Confederacy . . .
Every other month or so, Susan and I make a two-day drive to South Carolina, with our giant dog Elsie in the back seat, to visit our daughter, who has…
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Lawrence Bush
6
BOMBING
In 1980, I was working for a small publishing house called The Pilgrim Press. My task was to acquire and edit social justice books. Very quickly I took…
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Esther Cohen
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