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Publication Update

This is to say new work will return soon. Paid subscriptions are on pause with most profound appreciation to those who have financially supported my…

Aug 26 • 

Christine Newton Bush

June 2025

How To Hope: The Nature Of Starlight

Comments on the occasion of a memorial service for Barry Richard Groner (1950-2025) as preface to a poem for he and his wife, Diana Joy Newton.

Jun 27 • 

Christine Newton Bush

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March 2025

How To Hope: From Toxic Alchemy Emergent Beauty

In myth, Venus was spawned from the frothing sea into which Cronus had tossed the testicles of his father Uranus. Family violence gives birth to the…

Mar 8 • 

Christine Newton Bush

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How To Hope: From Toxic Alchemy Emergent Beauty

In myth, Venus was spawned from the frothing sea into which Cronus had tossed the testicles of his father Uranus. Family violence gives birth to the…

Mar 8 • 

Christine Newton Bush

February 2025

How To Hope: Existentialism 101 — "existence precedes essence"

U.S. Centers for Disease Control & numerous other federal agencies are scrubbing web sites of information, policies — even acronyms — about people who…

Feb 16 • 

Christine Newton Bush

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How To Hope: Existentialism 101 — "existence precedes essence"

U.S. Centers for Disease Control & numerous other federal agencies are scrubbing web sites of information, policies — even acronyms — about people who…

Feb 16 • 

Christine Newton Bush

January 2025

How To Hope: Kintsugi Sisters

Moons are believed often to form from planetary collisions. When Theia crashed into Earth billions of years ago, the debris coalesced into the sublime…

Jan 28 • 

Christine Newton Bush

How To Hope: Kintsugi Sisters

Moons are believed often to form from planetary collisions. When Theia crashed into Earth billions of years ago, the debris coalesced into the sublime…

Jan 28 • 

Christine Newton Bush

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How To Hope: Opportunity

Sometimes things fall apart. Sometimes failures of imagination entail unanticipated success and inspiration. That’s the story of the Martian rover…

Jan 22 • 

Christine Newton Bush

How To Hope: Opportunity

Sometimes things fall apart. Sometimes failures of imagination entail unanticipated success and inspiration. That’s the story of the Martian rover…

Jan 22 • 

Christine Newton Bush

How To Hope: Explore Your Psyche

Psyche, an M-type planetoid in the asteroid belt, will be visited later this year. It was named (in 1852) for the Greek goddess of the soul who married…

Jan 13 • 

Christine Newton Bush

How To Hope: Explore Your Psyche

Psyche, an M-type planetoid in the asteroid belt, will be visited later this year. It was named (in 1852) for the Greek goddess of the soul who married…

Jan 13 • 

Christine Newton Bush

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