Near to The Wild Heart

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How does such a bad year lead to joy?
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Taming The Wild Heart
On heart trouble, breastfeeding, and sex
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Mothers Talking
“The wild velocity of motherhood, an enforced momentum forbidding contemplation.” —Sarah Manguso
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Palestine & the Persistence of Childhood Innocence
on Palestine and the boundary between a genuine shielding our children from the brutality of the world and the reproduction of the myth of innocence
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Do something to my body, react to it.
on my daughter's milk habit.
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In New York, everything fits: on being published while travelling
I know it must be because I am a tourist, entering and leaving when I want to, and never needing to fit myself into the city's difficulties --- but New…
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Window Water Baby Moving: On Memories of Childbirth
I love that my body was able to rupture the corporeal boundaries I have in everyday life. I’m not a risk taker, I’m afraid of heights, but the…
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Parenting Up in Smoke
How can something that enlivens our senses be that acutely dangerous? We laugh because of course most threats of the world operate in exactly this way.
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Near to The Wild Heart
Near to The Wild Heart
Weekly-ish writing at the intersection of philosophy, motherhood, art, and desire.
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