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Spring Reading: An Incomplete List
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Everybody Wants to Be a Cat!
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Damn Yankees
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Trauma, Zion, Contemplation, Flow
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update in long paragraph, images
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Tallying Surrender: John Ashbery's "The System," Meister Eckhart, and the MEQ
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One Poem, One Image
John Ashbery, from his 1966 collection "Rivers and Mountains," feat. central eastern Alps and the Mur river (seen from a fast train)
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The Beautiful Boy as Destroyer
two paintings paired with an excerpt of 'guerilla scholarship' for you to mark the moment between Scorpio and Sagittarius seasons
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One lesson, one image
excerpt from "The Art of Living" by Thich Nhat Hahn
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One story, one park:
anecdote from "The Long Haul," autobiography of radical educator Myles Horton, and images from a new village park in East Germany
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One poem, one image
two objects to weigh for tomorrow's new moon in Libra (solar eclipse)
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New Age Religion & Postmodern Lyric
An excerpt from the introduction of my current scholarly project, "'A Blessing in Disguise': Contemplative Pedagogy in John Ashbery" (Aug 2025)
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Leo Season: a closeout list
The retrograde has been making it difficult to follow our bliss. Below, a few band-aids as Virgo arrives for its annual comprehensive energetic overhaul
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EDIT: important changes to last post
I want to make sure my subscribers get notified of these changes, as they are crucial to understanding the post. Apologies for the extra email! xxKK
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HORSE STANCE: the Radical Liberatory Pedagogy of Human Design
"I teach surfing. I don't teach the whole ocean" —John Martin, Human Design Hawaii
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Strength Reversed
Strength Reversed
Contemplative nonfiction essays, how-to self-therapies, lit crit & theories, poems, and images by Kayla Krut: poet, PhD, & creativity mentor
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