Hi everybody, Vanessa here. I am dropping in your feed with a bonus conversation to share

with you just a little bit more about our upcoming Emily Dickinson pilgrimage. I'm joined

by a very special guest, Stephanie Paulsell, who will be one of the two faculty members

on this trip. Hi, Stephanie. Hi, Vanessa. So for those of our listeners who don't know,

you are a professor at Harvard Divinity School. And you have been a mentor to me since the

very beginning of all of our work at Not Sorry. And in fact, you were the inspiration for

our very first pilgrimage. You were on our Virginia Wolf to the lighthouse pilgrimage

and have been, this will be your third one with us. That's right. That's right. I'm wondering

what you look forward to about this pilgrimage, having this expertise, but also this, you

know, the specifics of Emily Dickinson. Well, the thing I love about our pilgrimage

is the combination of reading and walking and talking. And I know on this pilgrimage

we're going to walk from Amherst where Emily Dickinson lives her whole life to North

Hampton. And this is very much her landscape. It is a landscape that she loved and that

she paid really close attention to. It was the landscape in which she experienced the

sacred much more than in any religious community. So I'm really excited to be reading her and

talking about her and thinking about her with others. You know, reading Emily Dickinson

as a pilgrimage itself, she wrote nearly 2000 poems. I have a friend who calls her collection

of Emily Dickinson's poems for a solter. She's just continually reading through them. And

I'm trying to do that as well. And because she wrote so much, I'm just constantly discovering

poems I didn't know about that are, you know, mind blowing. So I'm excited to have a community

of readers and walkers to think about them with and talk about them with.

You and our other faculty member Amy Hollywood have co-taught a class on Emily Dickinson

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