Move Us Toward the Light

A special July 4, 2025, gift assortment for all subscribers

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Hello Loreates,

This is the bleakest Independence Day in my memory, and the contrast with the cheer and optimism of last year’s 4th makes it even grimmer. But it’s not as if we haven’t been felled before, as if we haven’t all had to talk— or write— ourselves into getting up again throughout our lives. Especially since the…