<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[amyswiftcrosby]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amyswiftcrosby]]></description><link>https://amymswift.wixsite.com/amyswiftcrosby/essays</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:05:01 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.amyswiftcrosby.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[The Last Time.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The “last time” we do anything is rarely known, at the moment we experience it. I don’t remember the “last time” I read my girls a story in bed, or the last time I got a letter from my dad, nor the last time we’d have our Thanksgiving party on School Street. Some things are the gradual – the undetectable…
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Read More]]></description><link>https://www.amyswiftcrosby.com/post/everything</link><guid isPermaLink="false">690e257324135d43df4d2fd3</guid><category><![CDATA[Big Life]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2020 13:41:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/690a24_3cc5e79c4e964837a8ea89e941ded078~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>amymswift</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eddy.]]></title><description><![CDATA[I often look to the natural world to help remind me that everything… is a reflection of everything. Like so many, I am often drawn to the river as a metaphor – a wordless guide for how to think about what comes (or goes) in life. To be water rushing and winding over stones, whose edges have been rounded by…
Read More]]></description><link>https://www.amyswiftcrosby.com/post/_eddy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">690e257324135d43df4d2fd6</guid><category><![CDATA[Big Life]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2020 11:50:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/690a24_029cc4e120ac4fc2827e30b998dac3d3~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>amymswift</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Company.]]></title><description><![CDATA[In my house, we’ve been talking about how it is to be with… each other. In my mind, I’ve been thinking about how it is to be with, period. With two tween girls, and the fourth member of our family in another state, our togetherness – and even our apartness – has a quality    to it. I’ve reminded everyone…
Read More]]></description><link>https://www.amyswiftcrosby.com/post/company</link><guid isPermaLink="false">690e257324135d43df4d2fd5</guid><category><![CDATA[Big Life]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2020 19:41:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/690a24_aa838b1ba3aa4de9b4c1096ff65c6204~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_862,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>amymswift</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Connected.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Today, I got down on my knees and did something I’m slightly ashamed to say… I haven’t done in a very       long time. I cleaned all the floors in my house. I scrubbed the corners of the bathrooms, the places that no one sees until they look too closely. I scoured the kitchen, edge to edge. It is…
Read More]]></description><link>https://www.amyswiftcrosby.com/post/connected</link><guid isPermaLink="false">690e257324135d43df4d2fd7</guid><category><![CDATA[Big Life]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2020 09:00:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/690a24_dc751a7f96f54b098cfbe6d9a829f6d9~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_770,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>amymswift</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[This.]]></title><description><![CDATA[I can’t remember the last time…I had time. When I wasn’t in a hurry. When I wasn’t doing two, three, even four things — at once. This is unprecedented. Perhaps even sacred. Strangely, I’m now beginning to realize how upset I’ve been at never having enough… Hours…..Space…..Width…..Depth. We, as a culture, know so little about staying in one place. About…
Read More]]></description><link>https://www.amyswiftcrosby.com/post/_this</link><guid isPermaLink="false">690e257324135d43df4d2fd4</guid><category><![CDATA[Big Life]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2020 13:00:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/690a24_59f6cbb8249247b499853af7044d579f~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_768,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>amymswift</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncertainty.]]></title><description><![CDATA[At the root of most anxiety is the unknown. I’m feeling a lot of this lately. What if… ? Then what? And why? Our ability to cope with what is not yet known ends up defining so much of who we are, how we behave, the decisions we make, and how we impact those around us. Chronic worriers tend to…
Read More]]></description><link>https://www.amyswiftcrosby.com/post/uncertainty</link><guid isPermaLink="false">690e257324135d43df4d2fdb</guid><category><![CDATA[Big Life]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2020 09:00:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/690a24_4706197511e44c028394b53fd1115617~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_600,h_450,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>amymswift</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Devotion.]]></title><description><![CDATA[This word and emotion has fascinated me for years. When I see it in play, whether between parent and child, entrepreneur and idea, between Frida and Diego or in the more solitary waters of personal callings — I can’t help but survey my own life for signs of its indelible footprint. Devotion implies love and purpose — a deep and…
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