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The Nutcracker
2026-01-27 11:00 UTC by Corey

We went to see The Nutcracker after watching it countless times at home. Their favorite part has always been the Mouse Battle, not the Sugar Plum Fairy. Olivia’s nickname comes from Claire. Every time we watch The Nutcracker, we try our grand jetés and pirouettes, though the grand jeté never quite lands the way we imagine. We...

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There is a room that waits. A simple chair rests in the corner, a larger chair near the center. A table holds a bouquet. The door is closed, and light gathers across the walls, tracing distant horizons in the paintings.

Everything is in place. Nothing presses. The room gives time — time to stand by the window, to look outward, to wonder what...

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In the Keeping of Soil and Thread
2026-01-24 11:00 UTC by Corey

He laid the socks into the basket, the cotton thinned by years of walking row to row. When he lifted his eyes to her, they held each other’s gaze and understood without speaking: by her care, there was still a margin of mercy. 

They might yet endure.

She turned the socks over, feeling the memory of their days in the heels and toes. How...

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Scavenging at Second Hand Shops
2026-01-23 11:00 UTC by Corey

Today, Chelsea and I went scavenging through secondhand shops, not looking for anything in particular. We didn’t go to any of the curated shops. We wanted to dig — the bottom shelf, the forgotten corners, the places where you have to look twice and then a third time. I call that- « eye adjustment, » to things you’re not used to seeing.

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Have and Have Not
2026-01-22 11:00 UTC by Corey

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Jean-François Millet painted The Gleaners in 1857.


 

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