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Thanks for these precious words. I look forward to every letter, and for the last few years, your new year's posts have been especially meaningful. Sending peaceful wishes for 2024!

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Thank you so much, Diana! Sending all the best in this new year.

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So grateful for your weekly letters, Devin.

Wishing you the best for 2024.

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Always grateful for you reading, Jeff. Have a wonderful new year!

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Curiosity is precious. My six year old inspires me on a daily basis 🤍

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I love that. It really is precious.

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Thanks for this...

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This is so provocative, evocative. I will be reading and re-reading this a bunch of times. Thank you for this New Year’s gift1

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Appreciate you! Have a wonderful new year

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Happy new year, Devin. You and these letters are gifts.

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Thank you always, Roxani!

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as always, such thoughtful possibilities. thank you for recommending questions as a way forward. as well as a way to look back on the year, or many years.

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Thank you for reading, Celeste!

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I love that litany of questions from her poems! She may be the poet whose work I know best, yet I never looked at her through the lens of questions. Thank you for this! And for the image of kids sticking their heads up toward the front seat to pester the adults with endless questions. Wonder and curiosity forever! ✊🏼

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What a beautiful essay. Thank you!

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Please write something on Ted Kooser.

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"... The face of the moose is as sad

as the face of Jesus ..."

"I think that hope comes in what we choose to bear together."

Grateful to have found your writing this year by way of a blog friend who lives in Germany, to have been introduced to so many poets I had not read before. Your weekly essays enrich my creative life.

Many of Mary Oliver's questions are like koans. I love them. It is heartening to read your essay about her poetry at the end of 2023 and the beginning of 2024.

All the best to you and your beloveds in 2024 and always.

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