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Based on Irish novelist Colm Toíbín's novel, the movie is a quiet, classic American story about rising above one's self to become authentic, and a…

Jul 19 • Whitney McKnight

What I did and am still doing during my Great American Staycation

A tour through this American life by way of what I'm doing, eating, watching, reading, and listening to

Jul 3

The go-to American monk might not have thought what you think he thought

Some uncommon insights on Thomas Merton

Jun 15 • Whitney McKnight

Taming beastly civilizations with schism

Which has nothing to do with marsupials

Jun 8 • Whitney McKnight

Ours! Ours! Ours!

Being discharged from the hospital put me in mind to despair the jovial but utterly dumb face of rapaciousness

Jun 1 • Whitney McKnight

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A story about grit and grief

Sep 4, 2023 • Whitney McKnight

Napping at the edge of Appalachia

Apr 29, 2024 • Whitney McKnight

A brief meditation on pain

Jul 10, 2023 • Whitney McKnight

All this useless beauty

Nov 24, 2024 • Whitney McKnight

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