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Do something that won’t compute
On Wendell Berry and true liberation
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Ashley Zhang
3

October 2023

Within me there lay an invincible summer
Flourishing in times of grief and darkness
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Ashley Zhang
2
Surrender control over your stories
George Saunders on the parallel crafts of writing and living
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Ashley Zhang
1

September 2023

Toward a vision of human flourishing
A call to collectively reimagine our world
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Ashley Zhang

August 2023

A part of the divine, eternal scheme
Reflections on "Self-Reliance," Emerson's paean to individualism
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Ashley Zhang
3

June 2023

Smoke & mirrors
Treading the tightrope between imagination and reality
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Ashley Zhang
3

May 2023

Do not love half lovers
Are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?
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Ashley Zhang
6
Go to the limits of your longing
and have patience with everything unresolved in your heart
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Ashley Zhang
6
Not all those who wander are lost
Meandering reflections on walking the Camino de Santiago
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Ashley Zhang
8

November 2022

Dreams, deferred
Hello again.
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Ashley Zhang
11

February 2021

Writing as self-flagellation
I want my writing to make me bleed.
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Ashley Zhang
8
You are here; here you are
On self-doubt, regret, and the sheer dumb luck of our existence
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Ashley Zhang
5
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