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New Moon Reading Reports

Monthly reading report about books, newsletters, or other words that have helped me shift my mindset.
Lessons in Living Alongside Monsters: Reading Soil by Camille T. Dungy
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Lessons in Living Alongside Monsters: Reading Soil by Camille T. Dungy

I am horrified by the circumstances that have forced Dungy to develop this skillset of thriving under and in spite of the crush and fear of our culture. But I am deeply grateful that she chose to share it with the world. This is the kind writing– the kind of leadership–that we desperately need.
26 Jul 2025 6 min read
Image of four geese flying superimposed over a digital street map.
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Flyways

If political borders cut apart our world, then the flyways of birds crossing them over and over, year after year, do the hard work of stitching us back together.
25 Jun 2025 5 min read
Finding the Mother Tree: A Reading Report for the New Moon 🌑
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Finding the Mother Tree: A Reading Report for the New Moon 🌑

This book isn’t about the change we want, it’s about the change we need. Deep, soul-shifting change that can motivate a person to upend her life repeatedly over an entire career and still decide the sacrifice is worthwhile....
26 May 2025 5 min read
New Moon Reading Report: The Dawn of Everything
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New Moon Reading Report: The Dawn of Everything

This month’s read is The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow As I hope you’re seeing in this newsletter, I really love to pick at our cultural assumptions like they’re scabs and I’m 8 years old. Particularly the
27 Apr 2025 3 min read
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