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Portable Home

Lara Bongard

A playful newsletter dedicated to preserving ancestral wisdom and crafting new stories that guide us to re-Earth in an uprooted world.

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The Art of Wintering

“I asked myself: what is this winter all about? I asked myself: what change is coming?” (Katherine May, Wintering, 2020)

This winter, I have been wintering. First by force (because December floored me and forced me to stay in bed for two w...

4 months ago

Judeo-Futuristic Food

This reflection on “Judeo-Futuristic” food is derived from the performance “Judeo-Futurism” that took place on December 11th 2025 at the Jewish Museum in Amsterdam. The event – a collaboration between David Bernstein, Julie Weitz, and Lara...

4 months ago
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Island of Carriers

Friday 5th of April 2024

We almost missed the aliscafo, the only one of two that goes a week. Out of breath, sweaty and hungry, we greeted the Liberty Lines crew as we made our way inside. We threw ourselves on the chairs and Fran handed...

7 months ago

To Love the World Requires Courage

“You are not a separate being.

You belong to the living body of Earth.

You are the Earth, looking up at the stars.

You are the Earth, becoming conscious of itself.”

– Joanna Macy

William Blake, The Wandering Moon, 1816

Life on the...

10 months ago
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Borscht

(Dutch below)

The winters I visited my father, back when he lived in Moscow, were so bitterly cold that I could sometimes only stay outside for ten minutes at a time. During one of those winters, we were in Wladimir, a small town just outs...

a year ago
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    Lara is a writer, artist, and cook who has lived a nomadic lifestyle for the past four years. In 2023, she published her debut book, The Girl Who Crossed the River with a Tablecloth, with Art Paper Editions.

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