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A MOTHER FINDS IT USEFUL sometimes to step outside her life so that she can look back in. To see her home and the things inside it more clearly without the barbed attachments of purpose or emotion; to ...

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Essayist, poet and translator, Laura Marris, explores the power of ground truth and ecological community in the Age of Loneliness.