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Dec 2022
7m 32s

December musings from Krista, plus: an i...

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About this episode

"It is still an enduringly strange and hard time to be alive. And December is always hard for many of us — filled with all kinds of experiences and feelings that contradict each other or contradict how we think we are supposed to be feeling … Yet it's also on my mind, as we roll around to nearly three years since the pandemic shifted the ground beneath our feet, that we are a bit more open, many of us, to pick up more of what these years have given us to see and to learn and to live into."

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