Writing

Essays on the medicine hidden in the stories we're told to dismiss: romance novels read for what they're actually doing, astrology read for what it's asking, and the liminal ground between what was and what's becoming.

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Approaching Liminality as a Pilgrimage
Vanessa Couto Vanessa Couto

Approaching Liminality as a Pilgrimage

Liminal times are not a neat crossing from ‘what was’ to ‘what is yet to be’. Because between death & rebirth - the ampersand in the middle is the pilgrimage.

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We're all foreigners in Liminal Times
Vanessa Couto Vanessa Couto

We're all foreigners in Liminal Times

As we leave the perceived known world of 'what was' and venture further into the waters of these liminal times, the experience of 'becoming the other' becomes pronounced as we build our new selves.

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