Noticing Matters

Noticing Matters

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happy new year

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a poem and 3 questions

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Melissa A. Butler
Dec 29, 2023
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On this last Friday of 2023, two days before we spin our way into a new calendar year, I offer you one poem and three questions.

The poem is a little one I found tucked inside a small weekly essay (“We’re not supposed to know”) from February 2023. I had forgotten it, but it found a way to get me to re-see it. I hear its heartbeat as both an honoring of t…

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