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“And then the water ran out, and they fell back, realizing too late that...
Remnants of the ancient city of Cahokia, in what’s now southern Illinois Not far from my grandmother’s house is a ghost city. At Angel Mounds on the Ohio river about eight miles southeast of...
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“In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends”*…
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) stands tall in the cultural pantheon for his poetry. It’s less well known that in his own lifetime, and in the decades following his death,...
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“How do I know what I think until I see what I say?”*…
Henriette Browne, A Girl Writing; The Pet Goldfinch, ca. 1874 Montaigne would be amused… The first quarter of the twenty-first century has been an uneasy time of rupture and anxiety, filled with...
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“The daily hummingbird assaults existence with improbability”*…
Christian Spencer, “Rainbow Ballet“ Zito Madu‘s lovely meditation on– and appreciation of– the hummingbird… … Hummingbirds are wondrous creatures. As Katherine Rundell wrote in her 2022 essay...
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“The braid is always stronger than the strand”*…
From Grace Ebert, a novel look at the world’s densest “city”… At its height in the 1990s, Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong housed about 50,000 people. Its population is unremarkable for small cities,...
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