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⭕️ 🛠️ I am doing a series on my Magic Circle platform called 👷‍♀️ Construction Notes, where I talk in real time about my experience with faith. Read the first one here: The Basic Tool for Building

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I came to understand the term deconstruction with a negative connotation. I was a devout Christian in my late teens and early to mid-twenties, and my peers often used “deconstruction” to describe people who had a loose fastening to the bible (specifically The Rules). It was for those who didn’t keep their heart right, who got bitter and left the (true) church. To be honest, at the time I didn’t even consider...

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🎵 A colleague showed me this tiny desk that i love by Isaiah Rashad – its soo good

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⭕️ Happy Friday! My first newsletter Magic Circle 001 is out, you can read here

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Proof of life / update – thrilled to announce that I started a role supporting finance and operations at Coefficient Giving this week! It’s been energetic to be around people who are passionate about effective change, and very smart! I am super excited about the team’s intense focus on ethical AI initiatives...

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Saw Club Kid this evening at the Angelika and it is one of my favorite watches of the year. Easily in my top 5 in a year of great movies. I wrote a quick review and some personal reflections of it. Read my quick review here:

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Club Kid Shows Love’s Elasticity and Says It’s Safe to Grow Up

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⭕️ I ❤️ Duchamp

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Regarding my Halloween costume / Emily Dickinson gnome poem post: someone reminded me today that she also signed a letter as Your Gnome, Emily to her “literary mentor”, Thomas Higginson— if you know then you know why I am putting that around quotations, but found this so silly and amusing — garden gnome...

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🌬️ My poem “Museum Diorama of a Secret Garden”_ is out in The Brooklyn Rail (viewed best in desktop mode!). I’m grateful for the response to it so far, and for the care and consideration the Rail team gave it. This poem means so much to me.

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I get to celebrate among so many talented artists, writers, and...

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Gnome thyself! Gnome poem by Emily Dickinson — happy halllooooweeen 🎃

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🌬️ My poem “Museum Diorama of a Secret Garden” is out soon in the November issue of The Brooklyn Rail! 🌿

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Come celebrate at the launch party on Wednesday, 11/4, at 6pm in the Chelsea galleries. Would love to see you there!

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Giving my favorite read of the year another reread, Works of Love by Kierkegaard —

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“When one says “yes” or promises some thing, he very easily deceives himself and easily deceives others also, as if one already had done what one promised, or as if by promising one had at least done part of what one promises to do, or as if the promise itself were something meritorious. Then when one does not do what he promised, it is a long way back to the truth again… For that reason the world is much inclined to promises, for the worldly is the immediate, and a promise appears very fine at the moment; for that very...

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Today marks two years since my dad passed away after a brutal battle with Leukemia. In honor of him id like to ask if you’d consider finding a place near you to donate blood. It helps those who are going through blood cancer treatments so much. We were grateful for every single transfusion. Miss him an...

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Proverbs 27:19

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As water reflects the face,
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My talented friend Oana Nicola’s review of Rachel Kalys, Hospital Hour is up at the Brooklyn Rail. Read here

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⭕️ Magic Circle released it’s first artifact from inside the circle, get one today at: magic circle [dot] email [slash] store (p.s. it’s free)

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⭕️ Magic Circle is back!! Essays, interviews, advice, and who knows what else – goes out on Fridays. Mostly about connection, attention, and inner and outer lives. I’m roping some friends into the round table and very exicited for the first issues. Jump inside at magic circle (dot) email

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I watched You Can See Everything this weekend and after some thought, I was both impressed and disturbed so I wrote a short critical piece on it. Contains spoilers and serious hot takes that I am willing to stand by!

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Read → here | # Conspiracy as Art: You Can See Everything is a magic trick for a liar

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Either Holmes is a mastermind who lies, or she is a victim. The audience gets stuck there. But those are not the only two options. Calling her a mastermind hands her a larger-than-life power the film needs in order to feel high-stakes. That is the spirit of conspiracy, and it is the spirit of Trump. A...

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Sunday! Spooky readin’ with others. 🧟‍♀️❤️

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🌬️ A former student of mine (Hi, Zora!) was just published in 4x4 Magazine and I could not be more thrilled to share their fantastic poem! Check out 4x4 Mag and Zora Day-Friedland’s poem attached

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🌬️ Emily Dickinson wrote in a letter to her literary mentor, Tomas Wentworth Higginson on April 25, 1862:

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“I had a terror — since September — I could tell to none — and so I sing, as the Boy does by the Burying Ground — because I am afraid.”

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Memorize a poem so if you are alone and afraid you have something to keep you company.

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Poem I memorized from this week:

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Peace | Gerard Manley Hopkins, can listen to it read here

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🪄 🐇 I found out last night that The Alliance of Magicians from Arrested Development is based on a REAL group and they host a real and exclusive magic show in LA at The Magic Castle. So, this is a new important side quest for me – if anyone knows a magician in LA please let me know!

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A wildly soft, healing take on Matthew 22 from Good Shepherd New York (start ~25:25). Still very Christian, but healing for me as someone who came out of religious toxicity

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Smart Funny Anya Liftig as 🦞

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🌬️ Elated to be reading poems this Sunday at don’t panic, enjoy, a reading series run by the artistic Joey Healey and Sofia Bagdade / also incredible reading poster made by Joey, name list version coming soon. ✍️ I’m going to wear something spooky and there will be refreshments 🕯️👻 – sunday | 138 w 15th st....

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Arthur Brooke’s Romeus and Juliet (1562)

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For love is fearful oft where is no cause of fear, / And what love fears, that love laments, as though it chancéd were

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