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I wanted to join that company.
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Where did our community go?
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You can't talk about the end until you talk about the beginning.
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Both my partner and I often express our desires to return home. Each has a different version of home, having been born in widely separate locations, economic stability, and cultural surroundings. My wife is from Manhattan. She was born in Greenwich Village and, when her family moved to a larger apartment uptown, she continued going…
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Be here now, baby.
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I think we could write this retro Retro piece in synchronous serendipity, so I won’t dwell on a nostalgic past. But Retrospect fills an enormous need and has created a deep and profound community where none had existed before. The timing could not have been better. I joined Retrospect on the eve of the 2016…
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As with most mountain lions in our region, P-22 was born in the Santa Monica mountains, probably in 2010. As of 2016, the National Park Service had caught, collared, and released 12 pumas, male and female. They roam in the relatively wild areas of the Santa Monica Mountain National Recreation Area. There, protected by law,…
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For three weeks I lay immobilized...
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The world shook beneath my feet and I loved it.
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Sometimes, feathering your own nest nearly thrusts you into the next nest over.
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Engagement, Commitment, and Fresh Air
Prompted By Art’s Impact
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Alone Together: From Solitude to Isolation
Prompted By Isolation and Solitude
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The Big Bang or, Our Cosmic Dawn
Prompted By Dawn
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Be It Ever So Humble…
Prompted By Can You Go Home Again?
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Breathe in… Breathe out: Buddha and the Time-Space Continuum
Prompted By Ceremony
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Carrying Retrospect Forward
Prompted By Retrospect Retrospective
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A Eulogy for P-22, a Directionally Challenged Puma
Prompted By Directionally Challenged
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The Prescient Pre-Trumpian Dental Fiasco
Prompted By The Dentist
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Standing at the Crossroads*
Prompted By Changed My Life
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An Ode to Joy
Prompted By Feathering Our Nests
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