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What does it mean to be embodied? I’ve thought about this for years now, maybe ever since I was seventeen and decided, while looking at myself in the mirror, that I was not going to spend this life…
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smoke
Did you know that the ‘tech’ in technology comes from the Ancient Greek ‘tékhnē’ which meant ‘knowledge of how to make things’? Technology used to refer to objects and machines we built and understood: a loom, a wheelbarrow,…
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our ruins, their songs
There is a poem written by the Iraqi-American poet Dunya Mikhail that has been following me around. I first read it in a workshop with the Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama last year and it traveled all the…
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the still field
I’ve recently found that the cramped space of a single line or paragraph is starting to paralyze me. I’d like to, if only for a moment, express everything I am feeling and thinking. The whole end-times-fear-and-joy-and-speed of it…
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after mystery, amazement
Today, weary from sitting and staring at my screen for hours, I decided to visit a friend I haven’t seen since last year: yarrow (“Schafgarbe” in German). She grows in the forest near my house, up on the…
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something endangered, something extinct
The day before Christmas last year, my nearly six-year-old nephew announced that he had prepared a surprise for everyone. We were about to start dinner when it was my turn to be surprised. ‘Close your eyes and pick…
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an experiment in being wrong
The main reason I started writing this newsletter at the beginning of 2025 is that I wanted to confront a deep-seated fear of mine: I’m scared of sharing my point of view, my way of seeing the world.…
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where strength comes from
Last summer, I talked to my wise friend Pierre. He is very good with Tarot cards and he always makes me laugh when I want to give in to despair. ‘I feel so heavy,’ I said. ‘Why do…
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naming the unnambeable
The Star Container is my regular essay-newsletter. It contains questions and meditations on creativity, astrology, wisdom, and all things weird and wild. It comes out twice a month. Read all past issues below and subscribe right here.