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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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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?

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?

Jack Kerouac’s Pants

@thehope·San Francisco, CA·1

Jack Kerouac's pants woke up, found themselves on display in a Market Street store window, tedious cotton khakis selling nostalgia of lost San Francisco and all-you-can-eat haikus Jack Kerouac's

Stranger Than Fiction

What Just Happened?

Verse