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The Ritual of Thomas’ Discontent
Our cultural sense-makers are "AirSpacers" who prefer frictionless no-places to gritty, sticky, icky some-places
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"Let's Go to Hell": a Six-part live course on Dante's Inferno
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The Dark Enchantments of Grok Imagine
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Auden's impossibly magnificent syllabus, Frankenstein's creature's induction through literature, and the humans we are fashioning without the story of…
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The Haunting of Logres
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Brother to Father
An ordination, a thunder clap and two gifts to our parents: a stole and the maniturgium
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Summer Vibing, installment 1
An Italian 80's synth disco band, graduations, and an ordination
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The Underneath
The Underneath
Getting to the 'underneath' of what moves and shapes us and our nested stories.
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