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Portals vs Thresholds: the match of the century
the serious business of refining our lexicon
Nov 24 • 
Jennifer Berney
Estuaries, Borders, & Gap Edges: The Necessity of Creative Disruption
(plus a prompt for exploring thresholds)
Nov 17 • 
Sarah Tavis
Pressing into the Shard
What shape does your grief take? (+ a bespoke Kubler-Ross map)
Nov 9 • 
Jennifer Berney
What if This was a Good Dream?
communing with the Beloved Dead, plus a witchy writing prompt
Nov 2 • 
Sarah Tavis

October 2025

Rest is Creative
an essay + daily practice for becoming intimate with your dream world
Oct 27 • 
Jennifer Berney
A Portal
is anything you want it to be
Oct 19 • 
Sarah Tavis
Return of the Scrap Heap
what we've been up to and what's ahead
Oct 17 • 
Jennifer Berney
Revisiting: What's Your Saturation Job?
some questions to crack you open
Oct 12 • 
Sarah Tavis
Revisiting: All the Animals Breathing
on finding and making safe spaces to write
Oct 5 • 
Sarah Tavis

September 2025

Revisiting: Microchimerism
I'm in my mother, and my mother's in me (and also my children, my brothers, my sisters)
Sep 28 • 
Sarah Tavis
Revisiting: The Pause of the Threshold
death will interrupt this essay (AND: registration link for round 3 of Joyful Practice for Dark Times!)
Sep 21 • 
Sarah Tavis
Revisiting: Holding Our Stories
(joy, terror, and becoming a matriarch)
Sep 14 • 
Sarah Tavis
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Jennifer Berney
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