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Somersaulting Rabbits & The Seam of Precious Stones

Somersaulting Rabbits & The Seam of Precious Stones

On what it feels like to be pregnant, an excerpt from my novel, the difference between failure and apathy, and the cosmic dance.

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Sophie Ward Koren
Nov 18, 2022
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“In the end it comes down to this: you have a choice (or more accurately a rolling tangle of choices) between giving your work your best shot and risking that it will not make you happy, or not giving it your best shot – and thereby guaranteeing that it will not make you happy. It becomes a choice between certainty and uncertainty. And curiously, uncert…

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