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March 18 Day 30: Begin At The Beginning
And end when it’s time. Wisdom from Lewis Carroll, from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, published by MacMillan in 1865.
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1 min
March 17 Day 29: Our Stupid Hearts
Our hearts are broken and we’re so grateful for it. Meditations in an Emergency, by Cameron Awkward-Rich, from Dispatch, published by Persea Books in 2019.
This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone!
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2 min
March 16 Day 28: Kind Hands
What is there but kindness? I Am Not Alone Here, by Jacqueline Suskin from The Verse for Now, published by Flower Press in 2025
This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone!
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1 min
March 15 Day 27: Life Goes On
Despite reality, reality also demands joy. Life goes on. Thank you to Wislawa Szymborka for Reality Demands, translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh, published in View With A Grain of Sand by Harcourt Brace in 1995.
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3 min
March 14 Day 26: Maya Angelou and Dolly Parton Are Rooting For You
Be you, and do it on purpose! Thanks to Maya Angelou and Dolly Parton.
This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone!

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1 min
March 13 Day 25: Courage Is A Muscle
Summoning our strength of heart with Rabbi Susan Goldberg of our beloved Nefesh in Los Angeles.
This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone!

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1 min
March 12 Day 24: Expanding Our Minds
Let Bong Joon Ho show us the way.
This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone!

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1 min
March 11 Day 23: Art
What is art? Thank you to Shaun Usher of the Letters of Note Newsletter, one of our very favorite joys of the internet.
This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone!

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2 min
March 10 Day 22: Supplicants
How do we ask for what we need? Different Ways to Pray by Naomi Shihab Nye, from Words Under the Words: Selected Poems, published by Far Corner Books in 1995.
This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone!

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3 min
March 09 Day 21: We Already Have Everything Good
A poem (a prayer?) from Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi.
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2 min

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The Mash-Up Americans is your guide to the hyphen-America world we all live in. Amy S. Choi and Rebecca Lehrer talk culture, identity, what makes us who we are. Get to know yourself,…