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Gristle and Bone

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A sometimes newsletter made of pretty - occasionally disruptive - words. I think of them as love letters. Somatics, semantics, and ethics.

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About Karin Lynn Carlson

Anthropologist. Barmaid. Punk rock yogi. Lost contemplative. Maker of bone poems.

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