Ocracoke Evening
A poem about the particular quality of summer evenings on the island — the light, the boats, the way time moves differently here.
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The parable of the prodigal son is usually told as a story about the younger son. I keep returning to the father.
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Summer has a way of offering more time than we know what to do with. Here are five ideas for spending it well.
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May has a way of arriving with more promise than any other month. Here are five ideas to help you meet it with equal energy.
Continue reading →On Old Maps and the Courage of Not Knowing
Medieval cartographers wrote 'here be dragons' at the edges of their known world. I've been thinking about what we write at the edges of ours.
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