flâneur

The seam through the center of things - by Cate Hall

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On addiction, God, and grace

The Lord will take control of you. You will dance and shout and become a different person. 1 Samuel 10:6 In the weeks after Sasha and I sent the final manuscript for our book to the publisher, I found myself crying a lot. In some cases, it made sense: Reading Aella’s writing on her mother’s death, for instance, or Bess Stillman on her husband’s, or Tatiana Schlossberg on her own. But other cases were more perplexing: A great plate of risotto. A warm breeze on a late December evening. A competitor on Physical: Asia holding an uncomfortable position for a really long time. It took a while…

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