“To Norm!”: A Pint Raised to Belonging — and to the Man Who Brought It to Life
There is a peculiar sort of magic in the way a man enters a room and is met not with…
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Coming Home to the Present
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The Humbling Gift of Being Wrong
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The Holy Ache of Longing
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The Silence Between the Notes
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The Sacrament of Smallness
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Interruptions by Light
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Braving the Thin Spaces
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