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Excalicauldron: Recalibration - Issue #8
Tl;dr I'm back to publishing here, armed with a healthier approach to the concept of time (and how there's never enough of it, so adrenalise or die…
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Nadja Bester
Excalicauldron: Of Mice and Men - Issue #9
Geographies of being
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Excalicauldron: And on the 7th Day, She Took Pause and Bid a Momentary Farewell - Issue #7
Hello, goodbye 👋🎶 I deliberated till the last minute over what to write in this week's newsletter, and the answer came as an ending. February will be…
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Excalicauldron: Origins - Issue #1
Why a newsletter, why now, and what to expect from Excalicauldron. Stepping Out of the Facebook Zeitgeist Back in 2018, I wrote a post about quitting…
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Excalicauldron: Ignore the World - Issue #11
This is why we can’t have nice (blog) things
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Excalicauldron: Courage, compassion, and connection - Issue #5
Posting a weekly newsletter on the following Wednesday is either pushing it a bit, or I'm busy proving that time is no more than an artificial construct…
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Excalicauldron: Crying is Taking a Shower on the Inside - Issue #12
The superstrength of tears and the healing power of radical vulnerability
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Excalicauldron: Newborn Lambs Before the Dawn of Spring - Issue #14
What feeds you sustains you, and other gifts of focused choice
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Excalicauldron: (Big News &) Borderlands of Being - Issue #6
Refik Anadol, Machine Memoirs: Space
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Excalicauldron: The (Imperfect) Art of Living/Loving - Issue #10
Post-script edit: I thought it'd be short.
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Excalicauldron: There is actually a lot of room - Issue #4
Shorter than usual (which, being as verbose as I am, is a good thing 😆), some brief thoughts on buying into the illusion of busyness.
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Excalicauldron: Embodying Hypnagogic Liminality - Issue #3
Takeaway of the week: Holding space leads to spacious stories.
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