Devotions and Departures

The Lived and Unlived Lives

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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about staying and leaving. It’s a thematic duality long of interest to me: lives of enduring commitment to people and place in tension with lives that range in exploratory adventure. I was led recently, quite peripatetically on Substack…