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🗣️ Keening: the art of grieving in community

Dec 27, 2025

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6 min read

🗣️ Keening: the art of grieving in community

How this ancient Celtic practice fostered true release and healing during our month off

🥲 Plot twist: Let's talk about perfectionism

Dec 7, 2025

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7 min read

🥲 Plot twist: Let's talk about perfectionism

We didn't publish any prompts this week. Why that happened, what we learned from it, and what you can take away from our experience

🍄 Alien or mushroom? Glowing parrotcap wax fungi

Nov 29, 2025

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10 min read

🍄 Alien or mushroom? Glowing parrotcap wax fungi

Plus, a sneak peek at December's prompt themes, some sweet updates on the club from the Good News Bee, and your burnout affirmation for the week

🕊️ Bird or human? The impressively realistic melodies of Sakha nature-singing

Nov 23, 2025

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7 min read

🕊️ Bird or human? The impressively realistic melodies of Sakha nature-singing

Plus, Inca water terraces, the Crow story of the Little People, and a tomahawk-wielding historian braving a blaze to rescue dozens of Indigenous artifacts

🐢 Meet Jonathan, the world's oldest living land animal

Nov 15, 2025

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8 min read

🐢 Meet Jonathan, the world's oldest living land animal

Published this week: The Great Goddess of Teotihuacan, "We Are Water Protectors", ancient Pueblo cliff dwellings

🪽 Skywoman, Kindred Spirits & more art from across time

Nov 8, 2025

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7 min read

🪽 Skywoman, Kindred Spirits & more art from across time

Published this week: Navajo woven blankets, Cherokee basket-weaving, Northern Pauite literature

🔥 The Hill of Tlachtga & other prompts for Samhain

Nov 2, 2025

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8 min read

🔥 The Hill of Tlachtga & other prompts for Samhain

Published this week: Frida Kahlo, Mary Shelley, Hildegard von Bingen

👻 Step inside a haunted 700-year-old Irish inn

Oct 25, 2025

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7 min read

👻 Step inside a haunted 700-year-old Irish inn

Published this week: Hocus Pocus, ancient Greek horror, "The Garden of Death"

🪉 Beware the sounds of the Harp of Aillen...

Oct 18, 2025

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8 min read

🪉 Beware the sounds of the Harp of Aillen...

Published this week: Community, "Song of the Witches", The Poison Gardens of Alnwick

🫜 Carving turnips & other spooky-season activities

Oct 11, 2025

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8 min read

🫜 Carving turnips & other spooky-season activities

Published this week: Coffin naps, The Knife Angel, Madame Tussaud's horrifying roadshow

👒 Victorian looks that really *could* kill

Oct 4, 2025

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5 min read

👒 Victorian looks that really *could* kill

Published this week: Scooby Doo, Annabel Lee, The Monster Mash(ed Potato)

🌈 And we're live!

Sep 27, 2025

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4 min read

🌈 And we're live!

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