Poppups is a feel-good newsletter where personified nature subjects, such as a sea, a hill and a reindeer, are interviewed by a roving reporter about their lives and surroundings. Each issue pairs whimsical first-person monologues with photo credits and short factual asides about places and cultures.
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Poems, essays and commentary from poet David Whyte, with context on how and where each piece was written. Readers get reflective writing on love, resentment, nature and everyday human experience, plus material from his Three Sundays Series.
Short weekly personal essays by a church pastor, rooted in the pond, wildlife and weather around a church, each ending in a prayer. They reflect on grace, attention, ecological renewal and community through concrete observation.
A daily pilgrim's journal written from the Hutsul Carpathians in Ukraine, mixing personal reflection, mountain landscape and local folk custom. Readers get short, contemplative entries that tie the seasons, the old and new church calendars and village lore to the writer's walk.
Personal essays on rural life in southern New Hampshire, drawing on the seasons, woods, ponds and memory. Each issue is a reflective piece on topics like a 50th high school reunion, autumn at the pond and an abandoned canoe.
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