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Volume 7

Anxiety

Anxiety

The Benefits of Worrying.

Plucked

Plucked

Failure is Good.

The Egg

The Egg

Something That Heals

The Vivarium

The Vivarium

Kissing the Toad

Untrue

Untrue

Are memories real?

Repetition

Repetition

Stepping off the wheel

The Drawing Board

The Drawing Board

The building that knows its own mind.

Like I Said

Like I Said

Body Language.

Scratch That

Scratch That

A Little Too Competitive

Disavowal

Disavowal

Sarah learns wisdom from an octopus who appears in her sink

The Magic Thatch

The Magic Thatch

Straw can be Wilful

Mellification

Mellification

A life-giving sweetness

Quilting

Quilting

The lost mother in the forest

Strength and Weakness

Strength and Weakness

In Praise of Weakness

The Boardwalk

The Boardwalk

Lessons in the Sand

The Extra Head

The Extra Head

A Tiresome Appendage

Desperate

Desperate

The Power of Stones

The Southern Wind

The Southern Wind

The God of Autumn

The Caul

The Caul

Saved from drowning

Mid Summer's Eve

Mid Summer's Eve

Nothing is all of a piece

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