#essays — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #essays, aggregated by home.social.
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“I was hoping that at this point we'd be having more detailed and interesting conversations about what are we building now. Instead…I feel like we're spinning our wheels having the same conversations.”
#Indigenous #FirstNations #Métis #Inuit #TRC #Canada #colonialism #essays #books
https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/conversations-indigenous-issues-should-be-deeper-now-myths-and-stereotypes -
“I was hoping that at this point we'd be having more detailed and interesting conversations about what are we building now. Instead…I feel like we're spinning our wheels having the same conversations.”
#Indigenous #FirstNations #Métis #Inuit #TRC #Canada #colonialism #essays #books
https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/conversations-indigenous-issues-should-be-deeper-now-myths-and-stereotypes -
“I was hoping that at this point we'd be having more detailed and interesting conversations about what are we building now. Instead…I feel like we're spinning our wheels having the same conversations.”
#Indigenous #FirstNations #Métis #Inuit #TRC #Canada #colonialism #essays #books
https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/conversations-indigenous-issues-should-be-deeper-now-myths-and-stereotypes -
“I was hoping that at this point we'd be having more detailed and interesting conversations about what are we building now. Instead…I feel like we're spinning our wheels having the same conversations.”
#Indigenous #FirstNations #Métis #Inuit #TRC #Canada #colonialism #essays #books
https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/conversations-indigenous-issues-should-be-deeper-now-myths-and-stereotypes -
“I was hoping that at this point we'd be having more detailed and interesting conversations about what are we building now. Instead…I feel like we're spinning our wheels having the same conversations.”
#Indigenous #FirstNations #Métis #Inuit #TRC #Canada #colonialism #essays #books
https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/conversations-indigenous-issues-should-be-deeper-now-myths-and-stereotypes -
My book of essays – Lessons Learned on Life’s Rocky Trail
Hope you will view or download my book of essays and comments and donations are welcome! Essays_Lessons_Learned_on_Lifes_Rocky_TrailDownload Table of Contents Empathy Introduction Reflections on Listening as an Art Form The Quiet Power of Haiku If My Emotions Were a Weather Report Handwriting Is an Endangered Species Memories of Roosters Wishing Wells The Language Beyond Words The Grace of Humility Tribute to Birds Wishing Wells Small Talk The Artist’s Way of Seeing Some […] -
My book of essays – Lessons Learned on Life’s Rocky Trail
Hope you will view or download my book of essays and comments and donations are welcome! Essays_Lessons_Learned_on_Lifes_Rocky_TrailDownload Table of Contents Empathy Introduction Reflections on Listening as an Art Form The Quiet Power of Haiku If My Emotions Were a Weather Report Handwriting Is an Endangered Species Memories of Roosters Wishing Wells The Language Beyond Words The Grace of Humility Tribute to Birds Wishing Wells Small Talk The Artist’s Way of Seeing Some […] -
My book of essays – Lessons Learned on Life’s Rocky Trail
Hope you will view or download my book of essays and comments and donations are welcome! Essays_Lessons_Learned_on_Lifes_Rocky_TrailDownload Table of Contents Empathy Introduction Reflections on Listening as an Art Form The Quiet Power of Haiku If My Emotions Were a Weather Report Handwriting Is an Endangered Species Memories of Roosters Wishing Wells The Language Beyond Words The Grace of Humility Tribute to Birds Wishing Wells Small Talk The Artist’s Way of Seeing Some […] -
My book of essays – Lessons Learned on Life’s Rocky Trail
Hope you will view or download my book of essays and comments and donations are welcome! Essays_Lessons_Learned_on_Lifes_Rocky_TrailDownload Table of Contents Empathy Introduction Reflections on Listening as an Art Form The Quiet Power of Haiku If My Emotions Were a Weather Report Handwriting Is an Endangered Species Memories of Roosters Wishing Wells The Language Beyond Words The Grace of Humility Tribute to Birds Wishing Wells Small Talk The Artist’s Way of Seeing Some […] -
My book of essays – Lessons Learned on Life’s Rocky Trail
Hope you will view or download my book of essays and comments and donations are welcome! Essays_Lessons_Learned_on_Lifes_Rocky_TrailDownload Table of Contents Empathy Introduction Reflections on Listening as an Art Form The Quiet Power of Haiku If My Emotions Were a Weather Report Handwriting Is an Endangered Species Memories of Roosters Wishing Wells The Language Beyond Words The Grace of Humility Tribute to Birds Wishing Wells Small Talk The Artist’s Way of Seeing Some […] -
This month’s writing contest theme is drama, general fiction, scripts, plays, and essays! Reach out if you have any questions!
More details at: https://www.underground-bookshelf.com/3301202_august-2026-contest-submissions
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This month’s writing contest theme is drama, general fiction, scripts, plays, and essays! Reach out if you have any questions!
More details at: https://www.underground-bookshelf.com/3301202_august-2026-contest-submissions
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This month’s writing contest theme is drama, general fiction, scripts, plays, and essays! Reach out if you have any questions!
More details at: https://www.underground-bookshelf.com/3301202_august-2026-contest-submissions
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This month’s writing contest theme is drama, general fiction, scripts, plays, and essays! Reach out if you have any questions!
More details at: https://www.underground-bookshelf.com/3301202_august-2026-contest-submissions
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This month’s writing contest theme is drama, general fiction, scripts, plays, and essays! Reach out if you have any questions!
More details at: https://www.underground-bookshelf.com/3301202_august-2026-contest-submissions
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"I can still remember the thrill of holding that much-anticipated cone, taking my first lick . . . then watching the scoop roll off its biscuity throne to the sidewalk."
A very satisfying new #Longreads reading list from Elizabeth Blackwell:
https://longreads.com/2026/08/13/reading-list-ice-cream-summer/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
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"I can still remember the thrill of holding that much-anticipated cone, taking my first lick . . . then watching the scoop roll off its biscuity throne to the sidewalk."
A very satisfying new #Longreads reading list from Elizabeth Blackwell:
https://longreads.com/2026/08/13/reading-list-ice-cream-summer/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
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"I can still remember the thrill of holding that much-anticipated cone, taking my first lick . . . then watching the scoop roll off its biscuity throne to the sidewalk."
A very satisfying new #Longreads reading list from Elizabeth Blackwell:
https://longreads.com/2026/08/13/reading-list-ice-cream-summer/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
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"I can still remember the thrill of holding that much-anticipated cone, taking my first lick . . . then watching the scoop roll off its biscuity throne to the sidewalk."
A very satisfying new #Longreads reading list from Elizabeth Blackwell:
https://longreads.com/2026/08/13/reading-list-ice-cream-summer/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
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"I can still remember the thrill of holding that much-anticipated cone, taking my first lick . . . then watching the scoop roll off its biscuity throne to the sidewalk."
A very satisfying new #Longreads reading list from Elizabeth Blackwell:
https://longreads.com/2026/08/13/reading-list-ice-cream-summer/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
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A Soliloquy – Dan’s Last Harmonica Tune of the Evening
All right. That's enough. My lips are shot. Fingers are cold. Back's complaining. Even the squirrels have gone home. Just me, this bench, and you fellows. Six crows. Seven? No, six. You've been following me all afternoon. I played by the fountain. You sat on the fence. I moved under the oak. You moved to the oak. I played "Key to the Highway." Nothing. Tough crowd. One of you turned your back on me. Then I tried some blues. That got your attention. Three of you hopped […]https://essaysbydan.org/2026/08/13/a-soliloquy-dans-last-harmonica-tune-of-the-evening/
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A Soliloquy – Dan’s Last Harmonica Tune of the Evening
All right. That's enough. My lips are shot. Fingers are cold. Back's complaining. Even the squirrels have gone home. Just me, this bench, and you fellows. Six crows. Seven? No, six. You've been following me all afternoon. I played by the fountain. You sat on the fence. I moved under the oak. You moved to the oak. I played "Key to the Highway." Nothing. Tough crowd. One of you turned your back on me. Then I tried some blues. That got your attention. Three of you hopped […]https://essaysbydan.org/2026/08/13/a-soliloquy-dans-last-harmonica-tune-of-the-evening/
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A Soliloquy – Dan’s Last Harmonica Tune of the Evening
All right. That's enough. My lips are shot. Fingers are cold. Back's complaining. Even the squirrels have gone home. Just me, this bench, and you fellows. Six crows. Seven? No, six. You've been following me all afternoon. I played by the fountain. You sat on the fence. I moved under the oak. You moved to the oak. I played "Key to the Highway." Nothing. Tough crowd. One of you turned your back on me. Then I tried some blues. That got your attention. Three of you hopped […]https://essaysbydan.org/2026/08/13/a-soliloquy-dans-last-harmonica-tune-of-the-evening/
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A Soliloquy – Dan’s Last Harmonica Tune of the Evening
All right. That's enough. My lips are shot. Fingers are cold. Back's complaining. Even the squirrels have gone home. Just me, this bench, and you fellows. Six crows. Seven? No, six. You've been following me all afternoon. I played by the fountain. You sat on the fence. I moved under the oak. You moved to the oak. I played "Key to the Highway." Nothing. Tough crowd. One of you turned your back on me. Then I tried some blues. That got your attention. Three of you hopped […]https://essaysbydan.org/2026/08/13/a-soliloquy-dans-last-harmonica-tune-of-the-evening/
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A Soliloquy – Dan’s Last Harmonica Tune of the Evening
All right. That's enough. My lips are shot. Fingers are cold. Back's complaining. Even the squirrels have gone home. Just me, this bench, and you fellows. Six crows. Seven? No, six. You've been following me all afternoon. I played by the fountain. You sat on the fence. I moved under the oak. You moved to the oak. I played "Key to the Highway." Nothing. Tough crowd. One of you turned your back on me. Then I tried some blues. That got your attention. Three of you hopped […]https://essaysbydan.org/2026/08/13/a-soliloquy-dans-last-harmonica-tune-of-the-evening/
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You Won’t Get Free of It by Rachel Aviv review – a subtle study of the mother-daughter bond https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/aug/11/you-wont-get-free-of-it-by-rachel-aviv-review-a-subtle-study-of-the-mother-daughter-bond #Books #Essays #Culture
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You Won’t Get Free of It by Rachel Aviv review – a subtle study of the mother-daughter bond https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/aug/11/you-wont-get-free-of-it-by-rachel-aviv-review-a-subtle-study-of-the-mother-daughter-bond #Books #Essays #Culture
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You Won’t Get Free of It by Rachel Aviv review – a subtle study of the mother-daughter bond https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/aug/11/you-wont-get-free-of-it-by-rachel-aviv-review-a-subtle-study-of-the-mother-daughter-bond #Books #Essays #Culture
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Writing and living through friendship break-ups
Téa Mutonji discusses unexpectedly living through a friendship break-up after writing a novel about a friendship break-up.
https://bookriot.com/writing-and-living-through-friendship-break-ups/ -
Writing and living through friendship break-ups
Téa Mutonji discusses unexpectedly living through a friendship break-up after writing a novel about a friendship break-up.
https://bookriot.com/writing-and-living-through-friendship-break-ups/ -
Writing and living through friendship break-ups
Téa Mutonji discusses unexpectedly living through a friendship break-up after writing a novel about a friendship break-up.
https://bookriot.com/writing-and-living-through-friendship-break-ups/ -
Writing and living through friendship break-ups
Téa Mutonji discusses unexpectedly living through a friendship break-up after writing a novel about a friendship break-up.
https://bookriot.com/writing-and-living-through-friendship-break-ups/ -
You Won’t Get Free of It by Rachel Aviv review – a subtle study of the mother-daughter bond
By Rhiannon Lucy CosslettThe most complex female relationship is thrown into sharp relief in this moving series of essays
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You Won’t Get Free of It by Rachel Aviv review – a subtle study of the mother-daughter bond
By Rhiannon Lucy CosslettThe most complex female relationship is thrown into sharp relief in this moving series of essays
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You Won’t Get Free of It by Rachel Aviv review – a subtle study of the mother-daughter bond
By Rhiannon Lucy CosslettThe most complex female relationship is thrown into sharp relief in this moving series of essays
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This week's #longreads Top 5 includes:
-Behind the blockade (Associated Press)
-Splendid scribbles (Eater)
-Greenest green (The New Yorker)
-New nuptials norm (New Lines Magazine)
-Tasteless tomatoes (Offrange)https://longreads.com/2026/08/07/the-top-5-longreads-of-the-week-620/?utm_source=x&utm_medium=social
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This week's #longreads Top 5 includes:
-Behind the blockade (Associated Press)
-Splendid scribbles (Eater)
-Greenest green (The New Yorker)
-New nuptials norm (New Lines Magazine)
-Tasteless tomatoes (Offrange)https://longreads.com/2026/08/07/the-top-5-longreads-of-the-week-620/?utm_source=x&utm_medium=social
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This week's #longreads Top 5 includes:
-Behind the blockade (Associated Press)
-Splendid scribbles (Eater)
-Greenest green (The New Yorker)
-New nuptials norm (New Lines Magazine)
-Tasteless tomatoes (Offrange)https://longreads.com/2026/08/07/the-top-5-longreads-of-the-week-620/?utm_source=x&utm_medium=social
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This week's #longreads Top 5 includes:
-Behind the blockade (Associated Press)
-Splendid scribbles (Eater)
-Greenest green (The New Yorker)
-New nuptials norm (New Lines Magazine)
-Tasteless tomatoes (Offrange)https://longreads.com/2026/08/07/the-top-5-longreads-of-the-week-620/?utm_source=x&utm_medium=social
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This week's #longreads Top 5 includes:
-Behind the blockade (Associated Press)
-Splendid scribbles (Eater)
-Greenest green (The New Yorker)
-New nuptials norm (New Lines Magazine)
-Tasteless tomatoes (Offrange)https://longreads.com/2026/08/07/the-top-5-longreads-of-the-week-620/?utm_source=x&utm_medium=social
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An Essayist's Notebook is a great blog with a lot of insightful writing to read: "Ad hoc notes on essayism as method: observations, tensions, and fragments from an essayist’s working notebook".
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An Essayist's Notebook is a great blog with a lot of insightful writing to read: "Ad hoc notes on essayism as method: observations, tensions, and fragments from an essayist’s working notebook".
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An Essayist's Notebook is a great blog with a lot of insightful writing to read: "Ad hoc notes on essayism as method: observations, tensions, and fragments from an essayist’s working notebook".
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An Essayist's Notebook is a great blog with a lot of insightful writing to read: "Ad hoc notes on essayism as method: observations, tensions, and fragments from an essayist’s working notebook".
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An Essayist's Notebook is a great blog with a lot of insightful writing to read: "Ad hoc notes on essayism as method: observations, tensions, and fragments from an essayist’s working notebook".
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Existential Author Thoughts with Xiane
I've been deeply contemplating the why I write and even more crucial, the who is this for questions lately, and the answers are pending while I try to get out of the way of the emotions tied up with my work.
https://www.christianeknight.com/existential-author-thoughts-with-xiane/
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Existential Author Thoughts with Xiane
I've been deeply contemplating the why I write and even more crucial, the who is this for questions lately, and the answers are pending while I try to get out of the way of the emotions tied up with my work.
https://www.christianeknight.com/existential-author-thoughts-with-xiane/
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Existential Author Thoughts with Xiane
I've been deeply contemplating the why I write and even more crucial, the who is this for questions lately, and the answers are pending while I try to get out of the way of the emotions tied up with my work.
https://www.christianeknight.com/existential-author-thoughts-with-xiane/
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Existential Author Thoughts with Xiane
I've been deeply contemplating the why I write and even more crucial, the who is this for questions lately, and the answers are pending while I try to get out of the way of the emotions tied up with my work.
https://www.christianeknight.com/existential-author-thoughts-with-xiane/
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Have some short essays coming up on internet memes and art - the first is about Anna Haifisch's The Life I Always Longed For, and how yearning can be an emotion that carries you through to a new life
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Have some short essays coming up on internet memes and art - the first is about Anna Haifisch's The Life I Always Longed For, and how yearning can be an emotion that carries you through to a new life
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Have some short essays coming up on internet memes and art - the first is about Anna Haifisch's The Life I Always Longed For, and how yearning can be an emotion that carries you through to a new life
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Have some short essays coming up on internet memes and art - the first is about Anna Haifisch's The Life I Always Longed For, and how yearning can be an emotion that carries you through to a new life
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Have some short essays coming up on internet memes and art - the first is about Anna Haifisch's The Life I Always Longed For, and how yearning can be an emotion that carries you through to a new life
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Today's task is to rearrange my writings on #Kraa and prepare the way for exploring #longform #writing.
I'm particularly curious about and interested in writing #essays.
#amwriting #WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #WritersSupportingWriters
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Today's task is to rearrange my writings on #Kraa and prepare the way for exploring #longform #writing.
I'm particularly curious about and interested in writing #essays.
#amwriting #WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #WritersSupportingWriters
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Today's task is to rearrange my writings on #Kraa and prepare the way for exploring #longform #writing.
I'm particularly curious about and interested in writing #essays.
#amwriting #WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #WritersSupportingWriters
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Today's task is to rearrange my writings on #Kraa and prepare the way for exploring #longform #writing.
I'm particularly curious about and interested in writing #essays.
#amwriting #WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #WritersSupportingWriters
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#Memory works like a furnished room which expands to a full building.
The method of loci, also known as “the memory palace” is a technique for organizing your experience as if you are designing and decorating rooms.
When you picture a place you know well, where you could reach any corner with your eyes closed, you found the perfect storage for the memories you want to preserve.
Open the drawer and remember that romantic dinner seven years ago. Look through the window and see yourself playing with your childhood friends. See that box on the counter? That's your twentieth anniversary party.
This works so well because we are innate storytellers. But as stories go, they can alter the facts. It's hard to resist to make your version of them, especially when our brains are hardwired to find meaning — or even create it.
Nevertheless, our subjective experience is the only way to know the world, at least according to #phenomenology.
Philosophically, even #physics seems to agree, through the measurement postulate of the quantum world.
Metaphorically speaking, phenomenology is a coordinate system for experience. It doesn't ignore it, it contextualizes it in a frame that allows for a rigorous analysis, with formal methods or at least attempts at that.
I find myself lately reading more #magazines and #essays than #books, so I've put together three #articles I would like to share.
Read my short musings on them in The Gradient #blog & #newsletter
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#Memory works like a furnished room which expands to a full building.
The method of loci, also known as “the memory palace” is a technique for organizing your experience as if you are designing and decorating rooms.
When you picture a place you know well, where you could reach any corner with your eyes closed, you found the perfect storage for the memories you want to preserve.
Open the drawer and remember that romantic dinner seven years ago. Look through the window and see yourself playing with your childhood friends. See that box on the counter? That's your twentieth anniversary party.
This works so well because we are innate storytellers. But as stories go, they can alter the facts. It's hard to resist to make your version of them, especially when our brains are hardwired to find meaning — or even create it.
Nevertheless, our subjective experience is the only way to know the world, at least according to #phenomenology.
Philosophically, even #physics seems to agree, through the measurement postulate of the quantum world.
Metaphorically speaking, phenomenology is a coordinate system for experience. It doesn't ignore it, it contextualizes it in a frame that allows for a rigorous analysis, with formal methods or at least attempts at that.
I find myself lately reading more #magazines and #essays than #books, so I've put together three #articles I would like to share.
Read my short musings on them in The Gradient #blog & #newsletter