In “A View from the Cheap Seats”, Elizabeth Byrne talks sports; in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Hannah Gersen reflects on the transience of place, asking, “Is Geography Destiny?”
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Our silence felt happy and earned. We adventurers stared out over the red sand beach and over to the far cliffs and up the valley and all the way out across the unknowable sea. I imagined the Neolithic builders traveling here to read their fortunes in the sunset.
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HANNAH GERSEN
One of the questions that this documentary successfully answers is: how was a talent as special as Oliver’s nurtured? How did it grow? I found it refreshing that Waters emphasizes the people and places that contributed to Oliver’s well-being and flourishing. There’s no feeling that her fame was inevitable, given her gifts.
Podcast: Ro Skelton on “Naow’s Boutique”
RO SKELTON
Ro Skelton speaks to Emily Everett about her essay “Naow’s Boutique,” which appears in The Common’s spring issue. The essay explores Ro’s time living and working in Dakar, where she formed a friendship in her neighborhood that eventually led to a sense of community, and then a community garden, and then a lifelong friendship.
