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On That Always Aching Wound
by Bryana Joy
“OH MY GOSH, I want him to stay little!” a little girl wails in a viral video that has been making its rounds this week. Sadie has just learned tha...
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What If We Are Alone? [A Marsh-Wiggle Speaks]
by Bryana Joy
Our lives are staked on such simple things, aren’t they? Because it isn’t only true that no man is an island, it’s vastly more true that no belief ...
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On Suffering, the Russian Soul, & the Kingdom of Heaven
by Bryana Joy
It’s become a byword, the Russian tradition of suffering. Apparently everyone knows that misery permeates the works of the great writers and merits...
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On Homesickness: A Letter To My Children
by Bryana Joy
[Someday, perhaps, I will have children. If they’re anything like me, they will be afflicted with a craving that creeps up at unexpected moments, ...
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The Stag Who Lived Forever
by Bryana Joy
I'm so happy today to be able to share a story of my own with all of you. Sam Smith of Story Warren graciously invited me to write something for c...
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Edmund Votes Yes
by Bryana Joy
EDMUND VOTES YES [after Prince Caspian]She said it in three words, “Look, look, look!The mane and the golden fur!Over the gorge on the mounta...
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We Are Also From Somewhere Else
by Bryana Joy
"If with part of ourselves we are men and women of the world and share the sad unbeliefs of the world, with a deeper part, still, the part where o...
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On Adventure: A Letter To My Children
by Bryana Joy
[Someday, perhaps, I will have children. But today I am just flipping the page on twenty-one years, and there is already so much I want to tell the...
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Regarding The Time That Is Given To Us
by Bryana Joy
December was a bit of a rough and overbooked month, and the days that came after were so full of catching up, and so things have been mostly quiet ...
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On The Importance of Being Smike
by Bryana Joy
Sometimes a story smacks you squarely in the face with precisely the thing you need. So it was for me with Nicholas Nickleby last month, which I re...
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Marilynne Robinson on Wonder
by Bryana Joy
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In Confidence
by Bryana Joy
It's that time again. Summer is closing off and all my favorite things are up around the bend. Like rain and days under the white veils of clouds. ...
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