What Kind of Magpie
In this Substack newsletter, you’ll find an assortment of things that shine. The publication is so named because of a question Joan Didion posed in her essay On Keeping a Notebook: “What kind of magpie keeps this notebook?”
Are you someone who also loves getting weird about the expanses of the known universe and the mundane miracles of living? Great! Me, too! Check out recent posts below to find something that catches your eye.
Crossing Paths With Yourself
Peering Through the Bathyscope
What do you keep stitched beside your heart?
An Unlikely Awe
The Unbearable Lightness of a Southern Winter
Phantom Pains
Making Meditation: A Complicated Inheritance
CHRONOCHROMES: Cosmic Latte
The Good Ship Dolores
Taking Tea with the Trees
Just A Pinch
Making Meditation: A Gilded Age
When your demons come, feed them bread.
Making Meditation: Mushrooms & Mycelium
Through the Kaleidoscope
"Until Further Notice, Celebrate Everything"
I Want to Live in a Stop Motion World
The Space Between The Stars
In a World of Californians, Be the Carpathia
All That Glitters