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  • Set beauty apart from the world, and its beauty that suffers

    Join Stephen Jenkinson and Kimberly Ann Johnson this Sunday for an online event to debut Stephen Jenkinson’s new book: Trembling, Still: The Awful Clarity of a Mind in Eclipse Free...
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  • Before it was Caldera

    Before it was Calderaby Gregory Hoskins If there is such a thing as a beginning of this recording, it is likely in an all-but-empty Mercedes Sprinter I dubbed ‘Black Mamba...
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  • Caldera

    Caldera A language, the ways of speaking that it grants, is a beautiful thing. In its twists and turns and alleys it is a medieval hilltop town, a gathering of...
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  • Free Online Trembling, Still Book Event: Crafting Wholeness From Hurt

    Trembling, Still:The Awful Clarity of a Mind in EclipseStephen Jenkinson On Trembling Still: Crafting Wholeness From HurtA glimpse into a book's beginnings - a live conversationwith Stephen Jenkinson and Kimberly...
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  • You think you know your life

    You think you know your life. You know the gateways, the walls and windows, the trapdoors. Maybe it's truer to say that you know about your life what you can...
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  • Join Stephen Jenkinson In-Person This Summer

    Join Stephen Jenkinson in-person this summer for STAGGERED • STILLED • SUMMONED  A Thinking Man’s Brush With Neurodegeneration July 16-19, 2026Orphan Wisdom HallOntario, Canada An in-person event with Stephen Jenkinson...
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  • WALKING THE LINE

    In case your life has been uneventful lately: no matter how anticlimactic or prosaic that might sound, there is great merit in a slow moving, recoverable life. It affords its...
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  • UP THE MOUNTAIN

    To imagine, to dream that an ocean away, on the far side of half a millenium's separation, there are people willing to give you a hearing, or a chance, or...
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  • NOT UNSPEAKABLE

    Time was I saw no likelihood that I'd have any of you to the Orphan Wisdom teaching hall ever again. It was a frailty in the imaginal extremities that had...
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