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Martha Crawford 7/18/22 Martha Crawford 7/18/22

Higher Still

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The Blessings of Moral Failure

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Funny Uncles and Roe v Wade

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When Tall Trees Fall

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All the Way Home

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Slippery Desires

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Let it yearn:

I’ve become interested, over the years, in the power and function of yearning. Not wanting, not desiring, not hunger, but the deeply felt soul-need for something we do not have, that we do not see coming, that we have no idea how to get, that may be totally unreasonable, and impossible – yet, we yearn for it none the less.