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Before it was Caldera | by 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...

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...

Trembling, Still: | The Awful Clarity of a Mind in Eclipse | Stephen Jenkinson | On Trembling Still: Crafting Wholeness From Hurt | A glimpse into a book's beginnings -...

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...

Join Stephen Jenkinson in-person this summer for | STAGGERED • STILLED • SUMMONED  | A Thinking Man’s Brush With Neurodegeneration | July 16-19, 2026 | Orphan Wisdom Hall | Ontario,...

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...

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...

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...

THE ROAD | Just the sound of the those two words together makes something inside of me leap. Sometimes it's a recipe for disaffection. Sometimes it soothes it. But I've...