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DAILY DOSE: A POEM FOR THE PANDEMIC.

This week, a poem for the times by Lynn Ungar. Pandemic What if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath— the most sacred of times? Cease from travel. Cease from buying and selling. Give up, just for…
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DAILY DOSE: BUT IT IS PERSONAL.

“You don’t have to take it personally,” someone said to me Wednesday morning after I started crying again about the meager vote for Senator Elizabeth Warren on Super Tuesday. It wasn’t that she was my perfect candidate. It was about…
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Papaya with Yogurt & Flowers

DAILY DOSE: YOU DON’T HAVE TO.

You don’t have to smile. You don’t have to have it figured out. You don’t have to have the boyfriend, the wife, the kid, the life, you don’t have to have the family, the friends, the perfect pants, the hair.…
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DAILY DOSE: SMALL CHANGES MATTER.

It’s easy to imagine we can silo our efforts to reduce our carbon footprint to one area of our lives: We think if we just reduce meat and dairy in our diet, or stop using single-use plastics, or nix paper…
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DAILY DOSE: KEEPERS OF THE LAND.

One week ago, I sat rapt at the feet of US Poet Laureat Joy Harjo. Before she began the reading, Joy told us we must acknowledge the keepers of the land. Wherever we may go, the keepers of the land…
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DAILY DOSE: BEAUTY IN UNKNOWN SPACES.

I’m on the plane, about to take off for Maui, and I’m considering beauty. Considering how I’m less settled in one physical space now than I have perhaps ever allowed myself to be in my life. Which means I seek…
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DAILY DOSE: MELT THE CHOCOLATE. SETTLE THE MIND.

Melt the chocolate. Consider the time you have to do this. You are well enough to get out of bed after four days horizontal. Your throat still scratches. You sweat too easily. Stir quickly as the chocolate moves from solid…
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Ulupalakua Trail Walk

DAILY DOSE: LET ME BE CLEAR.

Creating big, tidal change in your life isn’t easy. It’s also incredibly easy, one might say, so long as you can stay committed to doing, being and thinking in ways foreign to what you currently know. Which is all to…
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DAILY DOSE: IN DEFENSE OF LOS ANGELES.

I never, ever thought I’d move to Los Angeles. I was way too NorCal, too tree-hugging, too uninterested in celebrity, too traffic and concrete and smog averse, too uninterested in plastic surgery and New Age scammery, and definitely too *deep*…
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