Fall 2022: Belonging
“There is a universal understanding among our contributors that we all belong somewhere…
May this issue help you find and sustain your place in our world.”
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- The Only Black Person in the Room
What that means and how that feels - The Night of the Hessian Soldier
A haunted inn inspires deeper questions - East Hill Farm
A leap of faith into an “intentional” community - Arrernte Land
A child visits her ancestral land - To Hold One’s Own
Making the world her own
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Our younger selves seed what we become and, as we age, we carry our earlier years with us. A sage elderly woman once told me, “some things you can only understand when you’re old”; yet equally true is that the…
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