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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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Carmelite Monks of Wyoming

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Christian Wiman: A mystical experience can make all reality seem, for a moment, addressed to you alone—as it is, I believe, to every single one of us.

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The Island: Systems, Progress, and the Fall of Binary Logic, by Jacob Hashimoto

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New Beginning, by Rabia S. Akhtar

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Kinnell’s Saint Francis and the Sow: sometimes it is necessary / to reteach a thing its loveliness

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Finished reading: Marce Catlett: The Force of a Story by Wendell Berry 📚

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People are amazing! A project to grow algae exclusively in the light of another star: Stellar Harvest

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