The Mind
Inside the head of….Sarah Crowder
Interview with a Gut Feelings co-founder. 1. Do you actively do anything to keep your brain healthy, and if so what? Yes. I do a lot of crosswords. I also read and try to hang out with people who are smarter than me and will make my mind stretch...
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Obscure Sorrows: Monachopsis
Monachopsis n. the subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place, as maladapted to your surroundings as a seal on a beach – lumbering, clumsy, easily distracted, huddled in the company of other misfits, unable to recognise the ambient roar of your intended...
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Abeona Diaries: At The Alcove
Tuesday 28th October, on the grass outside the Church of the Recessional, Forest Lawn, Glendale. I just read over the last few pages of my notebook from New York and couldn’t quite remember the person writing it. It feels like yesterday and years ago. After four...
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Inside the head of…..Bart Schaneman
Illustration by Fabio Vermelho Bart Schaneman is an author who lives and writes in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. He has published numerous stories, essays and poems and is most recently the author of a collection of essays Someplace Else: On Wanderlust, Expatriate Life,...
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Abeona Diaries: Summer in Oakland
The summer is already in full bloom in Oakland during the first days of June. It’s always a little warmer here than it is in San Francisco and here is where I am spending my last few days in America for a while. So much has happened in the past six weeks. I’ve...
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Inside The Head Of…Barna Howard
Barna Howard is a singer songwriter from Eureka, Missouri. His eponymous debut album came out in 2012, and was followed up in 2015 with Quite a Feelin’ which was met with rave reviews and earned him comparisons to the likes of Townes Van Zandt, John Prine and...
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Obscure Sorrows: Lachesisim
Lachesism – n. The desire to be struck by disaster—to survive a plane crash, to lose everything in a fire, to plunge over a waterfall—which would put a kink in the smooth arc of your life, and forge it into something hardened and flexible and sharp, not just a...
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Taming The Muse
“It comes from a place that no one commands and no one conquers…” Leonard Cohen is addressing the Spanish audience at the Prince of Asturias Awards. He is explaining, in his deeply charming and humble manner, how he finds his inspiration. “In other words”, he...
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Sarah Crowder’s lists; ways to deal with the trauma of menstruating
I didn’t get my first period until I was 14. I was so excited that I whipped my freshly stained white knickers off and waved them in my mother’s face like a triumphant flag. I was so happy, the fact that every other girl in my year at school had already started...
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Inside the head of…Trace Ramsey
Illustration by Fabio Vermelho Trace Ramsey is a recipient of the 2015 Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artists Award in Literature, a 2015 contributor in non-fiction at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and winner of the 2016 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction...
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Obscure Sorrows: Onism
onism – n. the frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time. As described in The Dictionary Of Obscure Sorrows. It’s the warm coloured stone of Greek churches. It’s the restful aureate light that everything here...
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Inside the head of…Noah Cicero
Illustration by Fabio Vermelho Noah Cicero is an American poet, novelist and short story writer born in Ohio and living in Las Vegas. We first fell in love with his writing after reading Bi-Polar Cowboy, his beautiful collection of love poems which he outlines on the...
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