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@emergent·Everywhere!·2

“Giddyup” is motion — curiosity, momentum, the urge to keep going. “Buddha” is the pause.

Border Crossings
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Guess I Just Don't Know

@emergent·Toronto, Canada·1

It pulls you in holding your breath, sometimes moving gently, and then in violent ruptures. It pushes you to the very brink of disaster, before letting you go.

Love & Wreckage
Absurd Encounters

Song and Spice

@emergent·Nags Head, NC

He once baked a dozen Linzer Hearts for her. You know, those heart-shaped shortbread biscuits that have a nice dollop of raspberry jam inside heart shaped biscuit rings placed on top of the first biscuit.

Love & Wreckage
Border Crossings
Travelogues
Slow Burns
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A Million Emotional Miles from Home

@thehope·Everywhere!

In the autumn of 1963, Kami’s parents embarked on a journey from...

Letters Never Sent
Memoir Fragments
What Just Happened?

Scrabbled

@emergent·Karachi, Pakistan

When Hormuz Rustomji was 10 years old, he almost died. He had malaria, jaundice, and a bad viral infection — all at the same time. Hormuz ran a 103-104 degree fever for five days and his doctor said he

Memoir Fragments
Night Drives
Stranger Than Fiction
What Just Happened?

Wild Bill and the Millionair Club

@emergent·Seattle, WA

On Western Avenue, between Vine and Wall Street in downtown Seattle, stands The Millionair Club. Just outside the trendy Belltown District, the Club is a privately run niche organization serving peopl

Travelogues
Memoir Fragments

Poof! Gone.

@thehope·Oakland, CA·1

A well-dressed Native American man with long braided hair and beads in it, wearing a beautiful Stetson hat, carrying a newspaper, walked into a BART train at West Oakland station. He took a good look

Border Crossings
What Just Happened?