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The Dance, The Drift, and The Handle: How We survive the Morning After
As 2025 comes to a close, we look at the transition from holiday magic to ordinary reality. Through stories set in a nursing home in Buenos Aires, a dark river in the Amazon, and a drought-stricken well in Turkana, we ask: How do we keep the music playing when the orchestra stops?
When the Bells Stop Ringing | A Prayer for the Day After
And finally, we look to the day after. The bells have stopped ringing, the guests have gone, and the wax has hardened on the table. We often treat the holiday spirit like a decoration—something to be packed away in a box until next year. But what if the kindness, the open doors, and the shared bread were not a seasonal performance, but a blueprint for how to live? In this final reflection, we ask what it means to carry the light of the feast into the famine of the ordinary days ahead.
The Architecture of Gratitude: How to Escape the Hedonic Treadmill & Find Joy
Why does the holiday “high” fade so fast? Discover the science of the Hedonic Treadmill and learn how to build a structural foundation of gratitude that lasts beyond New Year’s.
Stories & Literature
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Ineffable: For Everything Language Can’t Quite Hold
Some of the most important things in your life are also the hardest to put into words. In this episode, we celebrate the word for the things that defy expression — and why that might be the most honest thing language ever admits.
Go Down the Rabbit Hole: A Love Letter to Curiosity Without a Map
It starts with one question. Then another. Then a link, a book, a tangent, a three-hour deep-dive you never planned. Going down the rabbit hole is one of the most delightfully human experiences — and one of the most revealing expressions in English. Let’s follow it.
Liminal: The Power of the In-Between
The strangest, most transformative moments in life often happen in the spaces between — between who you were and who you’re becoming. There’s a word for that threshold, and it’s one of the most quietly powerful in the English language.
Catch Lightning in a Bottle: Chasing the Impossible and Why We Should
Some things are so rare, so electric, so perfectly unrepeatable that they feel impossible to hold. That’s the spirit of ‘catching lightning in a bottle’ — an expression that captures something essential about creativity, luck, and the human obsession with the extraordinary. Let’s chase it down.
Fleeting: The Word That Catches What You Almost Missed
There’s a word for the moments that are already over before you’ve finished noticing them. And knowing that word might just make you a little more awake to your own life.
The Elevator
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