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Natalie Vestin

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August 2018

August 07, 2018

Here Is Where We Wait

This summer, I climbed the rotting steps to the hayloft of my family's barn to...

January 2018

January 03, 2018

Blind Epiphany

Over Thanksgiving, my sister and I spoke of transitions. We're both susceptible to periods of...

December 2017

December 13, 2017

Lucia in the Dark

Every year after the clocks fall back, I read Lia Purpura's essay "Sugar Eggs: A...

November 2017

November 27, 2017

The Chopin Stitch

In a recent New York Times interview, pianist Steven Osborne discussed the strange experience of...

October 2017

October 16, 2017

The Arm, the Girl, and the Guard

In a long room with three doorways in Tokyo's National Museum of Modern Art, somewhere...

September 2017

September 26, 2017

Painting Brings the Ancestors Around

On a November evening last year, I walked to my rosemaling class and sat around...

September 05, 2017

Dark Forest on Fire

"We've got five years, that's all we've got," sang Ziggy Stardust forty-five years ago. Did...

August 2017

August 09, 2017

Possessed

It refused to rain during the hot, middling July weeks the summer I turned fifteen....

July 2017

July 19, 2017

Summer’s Heartbeat

On some summer nights, it seems the world is brighter, more visible in a quiet...

June 2017

June 22, 2017

Courting Babel

This month I thought it would be a good idea to take four hours of...

June 08, 2017

Thine is the Transkingdom

Jasmine Temple, laboratory technician at New York University Lagone Medical Center, Institute for Systems Genetics,...

May 2017

May 11, 2017

The “Oh, There You Are” Prayer

The love of God is scattershot. It is the love of the artist toward her...

April 2017

April 18, 2017

Finding My Sister in Young Adult Novels

Lately all I want to read are young adult novels about sisters. Young adult (YA)...

March 2017

March 08, 2017

Photos, Love, and Karyotypes

I recently found remnants from college and grad school genetics classes: karyotypes—sheets of paper with...

February 2017

February 13, 2017

Visiting Martin Luther in Minneapolis

A few weeks ago, I visited the Martin Luther: Art and the Reformation exhibit at...

January 2017

January 23, 2017

The World at Midday

I spent Christmas Eve with my mom last month for the first time in years....

December 2016

December 22, 2016

Gird Yourselves, Yet Be Shattered

Of Lanecia A. Rouse Tinsley’s small encaustic Advent paintings, my favorite is Meditation on the...

November 2016

November 30, 2016

The Ghosts of Home

When I visit my family in northern Minnesota, I find myself on the same roads...

November 07, 2016

Divine Infection

I once took modern dance technique classes with an instructor who asked the dancers to...

October 2016

October 11, 2016

Art, Icons, and Ant Ovaries

“A world created out of silence gives itself over to prayer.” I’m listening to local...

September 2016

September 21, 2016

Lifescapes and the Lonely City

I have a friend who occasionally asks me when I’ll move to a real apartment,...

August 2016

August 31, 2016

Microbes, Miracles, and Monstrosities

I’ve always promised myself I wouldn’t work with anything living, a prohibition I applied first...

August 04, 2016

Blood Lines

Last September, I was in Philadelphia for the first time since my freshman year of...

July 2016

July 12, 2016

Eat the Delicious Earth

A year ago, I started cooking and learning how to prepare and love food in...

June 2016

June 16, 2016

Pieces of Resistance

We've beat records for rain this year in central Minnesota. The sidewalks are pillowed with...

May 2016

May 24, 2016

Purple Light in Sarajevo

My fellowship liaison, Sevko, drove, and his gaze flicked across teenagers spilling over the sidewalks....

May 02, 2016

Love in the Time of Bacteria

Last week, I walked up Dale Street from the train station. It's a perilous walk...

April 2016

April 05, 2016

A Dancing Christ

On Holy Saturday, I woke up at my sister's house in northern Minnesota with a...

March 2016

March 14, 2016

The Living Among the Dead

Thanksgiving Day after I turned four: high fever at dinner, a drive through a blizzard,...

February 2016

February 24, 2016

Peace, My Animal

"Benedic, anima mea," I say each night to the mouse that lives behind my desk....