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“Maybe Stephen’s greatest...This is not a domestic document. If you seek the unexpected, seek this”Dr. Martin Shaw on Tr...
30/08/2026

“Maybe Stephen’s greatest...This is not a domestic document. If you seek the unexpected, seek this”

Dr. Martin Shaw on Trembling, Still: The Awful Clarity of a Mind in Eclipse.

Available now.

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“I was there for a lot of it. I am here for it.”Kimberly Ann Johnson on staying close through the changes that gave rise...
29/08/2026

“I was there for a lot of it. I am here for it.”

Kimberly Ann Johnson on staying close through the changes that gave rise to Trembling, Still — and some of what she and Stephen Jenkinson will bring into the room together in Santa Fe.

Sifting Shards in the Bonehouse�October 1–2 · Santa Fe, New Mexico

Details and booking via the link in the comments below.

“You think you know your life.”Stephen Jenkinson speaks to what we can afford to know of our lives — and what makes itse...
28/08/2026

“You think you know your life.”

Stephen Jenkinson speaks to what we can afford to know of our lives — and what makes itself known anyway.

Trembling, Still: The Awful Clarity of a Mind in Eclipse is available now.

Link in comments.

“There are times in the life of a book when the usual semantic limits of the language are legitimately reached, when the...
27/08/2026

“There are times in the life of a book when the usual semantic limits of the language are legitimately reached, when the music of the language spills over the edge. When that happens, a graft of sorts—a burnished language—seems called for.” –Stephen Jenkinson, MTS MSW

Mycellialy is one such called-for word, found in Stephen’s latest book Trembling, Still: The Awful Clarity of a Mind in Eclipse.

Discover more through the Orphan Wisdom website.

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“What do you do when something is ending?”In the latest Orphan Wisdom newsletter, Gregory Hoskins writes from inside the...
27/08/2026

“What do you do when something is ending?”

In the latest Orphan Wisdom newsletter, Gregory Hoskins writes from inside the long life of Nights of Grief & Mystery — and from the prospect of taking to the road again without assuming there will always be another time.

A reflection on endings, companionship, and what it might mean to gather up the things you love and place them into trusted hands.

Echo and The Last Dance is now available to read in full.

Read the full newsletter via the link in the comments, and subscribe there if you’d like future Orphan Wisdom letters sent directly to you.

“I haven’t got a ‘thanks anyway’ slip yet, so I think I’m in.”From rehearsals in Wales, Stephen Jenkinson writes of sing...
26/08/2026

“I haven’t got a ‘thanks anyway’ slip yet, so I think I’m in.”

From rehearsals in Wales, Stephen Jenkinson writes of singing, nerves, companionship — and the strange good fortune of finding yourself more alive in the company of others.

The latest Orphan Wisdom newsletter, I Think I’m In, is now up.

Read the full piece via the link in the comments.

And if you’d like these letters to arrive directly in your inbox, you can subscribe to the Orphan Wisdom newsletter there too.

25/08/2026

If you’re in the area — or could be — this will be time well spent.

Nights of Grief & Mystery return to the road across North America this October.

This is an invitation to come and be there.

Booking link for the North American tour is in the comments.

Generous words from Aditi Sethi, MD, founder and executive director of Emberlight: Center for Conscious Living & Dying.T...
24/08/2026

Generous words from Aditi Sethi, MD, founder and executive director of Emberlight: Center for Conscious Living & Dying.

Trembling, Still: The Awful Clarity of a Mind in Eclipse is available now through the Orphan Wisdom website.

Link in the comments below.

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