🕯️Hope in the Heart of Winter

Invitation to a writing, meditation, dance gathering on Dec. 20th

Dec 14 • Brianne Alcala

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Reach for the Analog Basket first

An easy way to swap phone time for tactile fun

Dec 3 • Brianne Alcala

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November 2025

Ring Theory: Comfort In, Dump Out

A striking way to remember how to help — and avoid a harmful blunder

Nov 12 • Brianne Alcala

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October 2025

🍁 Field Notes: October 2025 🍁

8 worthwhile reads picked out for you

Oct 26 • Brianne Alcala

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Seasonal slides

Thoughts on the "October slide" and other cyclical shifts

Oct 19 • Brianne Alcala

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📚 Small Rain: “whole strata of reality are lost to us at the speed at which we live”

Reflections on Parts 4 and 5 in our final installment of our book club pick

Oct 11 • Brianne Alcala

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September 2025

The broken record players in our lives

What happens when we are moved to change

Sep 24 • Brianne Alcala

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August 2025

📚 Small Rain: “everything around me was a mystery”

Reflective prompts inspired by parts 2 and 3 of the Odyssey of the Body Book Club selection

Aug 29 • Brianne Alcala

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Field Notes: August 2025

New research and past myths about hormone replacement therapy, advice for supporting friends with autistic children, the paradox of risk, and much more…

Aug 13 • Brianne Alcala

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📚 Small Rain: “.... there was something fascinating and dreadful about the experience of my body...”

Thoughts on Part 1 of our Odyssey of the Body book club pick

Aug 9 • Brianne Alcala

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July 2025

“Dying is the opposite of leaving” — poet Andrea Gibson

On the wondrous and wise poet Andrea Gibson, who died this week at 49

Jul 19 • Brianne Alcala

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A challenge vs. a struggle

Plus, announcing the first book of the Odyssey of the Body Book Club!

Jul 5 • Brianne Alcala

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