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Speaking for the Dead: “The greatest investigative piece I ever wrote when I thought I was really important never survived more than a few weeks in terms of being kept around,” said Jim Nicholson, the Philadelphia journalist who regularly chronicled deaths of the common man, the nobodies, as he put it. “But...

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From “Last on Earth” by Mary Ruefle

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I’d Rather Risk Cancer Than See AI Move This Fast: But I will wait a little longer for a cure—even if it means losing my fertility and living under the shadow of risk—if it lets us approach this new world more carefully, and ensure that, in curing cancer, we do not lose the things that make cancer worth...

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Lynette Cook – Lightness of Being

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Liza Mancini – A Summer Night

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Stop Pathologizing Ordinary Life: We should be thankful for the progress we’ve made on mental health and continue to improve access to effective treatment. But we should also try to spend less time stuck in our heads and more time out in the world, pursuing the kinds of activities that support mental health...

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All This Staring at Our Faces Is Messing With Our Heads: When we look at ourselves, we are seeking something. We want to be known, seen and understood. But we are looking in the wrong place. The mirror shows us our own self-critical and self-exalting gaze — the gaze of pride, pleasure and ego. This fantasy...

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Finished reading: This Is the Door by Darcey Steinke 📚

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Million Kisses Club: How can we keep anyone safe in a precarious and increasingly insane world? Like most people, my family and I got kicked around a bit. Illness knocked. Parents died. Work stalled. Friends suffered. The planet seemed to spin haphazardly, throwing all of us into tumult.

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Then my grandson was...

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Mom Aesthetic: In a world where some babies have Instagram handles before they’re even born, deciding how you want to portray yourself as a parent online has become, for some, almost as important as parenting itself.

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Tracey Emin \"\" : beejaymay.micro.blog

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Pasquale De Stefano is, by consensus, the last living numeraio — or number painter — in Naples.

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RIP Philippe Gaulier: The cardinal sin, the unforgivable, was to be boring. Like a pharmacist (his paternal grandfather was one. A really boring guy). Or a hairdresser. No one who was happy being boring should try to be a clown.

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Van Gogh & yellow

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Galileo’s handwritten notes

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Oliver Burkeman: You have the option of living with vastly more creativity and calm than the anxiety-merchants would have you believe – provided you can summon the strength of mind to screen them out. [I love the phrase “inner clench” Oliver uses!] …

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I think this is the best way to stay calm and level-headed...

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Music is for everyone

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Adam Kirsch: Telling someone to love literature because reading is good for society is like telling someone to believe in God because religion is good for society. It’s a utilitarian argument for what should be a personal passion.

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Path (2014) by Charles Choi

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For the Time Being

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When the Spirit must practice his scales of rejoicing\nWithout even a hostile audience, and the Soul endure\nA silence that is neither for nor against her faith\nThat God’s Will will be done, That, in spite of her prayers,\nGod will cheat no one, not even the world of its triumph.

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Breaking Ground (c. 1939), by Orrie McCombs, after Olof Krans

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