Alex Burns
@alexgraceburns
Alex Burns
It should take time to figure out which hike you want to take. It should take time to learn how to make bread. It should take time to read, to really read, Toni Morrison or James Joyce. It should take time to figure out what kind of music moves you, and what kind of clothes feel like you, and to discern the different calls a bird makes. It should... See more
Just a moment...
Make art, and while everyone is deciding what they think of it, make more art.” — Andy Warhol
Send handwritten letters
In this essay, I go deep on a Great American Bromance: the handwritten letters shared between Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think most of us are so out of touch touch with letter writing (beyond stiff wedding Thank Yous) that we’d assume letters demand a formal comportment — and are therefore boring, onerous,... See more
In this essay, I go deep on a Great American Bromance: the handwritten letters shared between Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think most of us are so out of touch touch with letter writing (beyond stiff wedding Thank Yous) that we’d assume letters demand a formal comportment — and are therefore boring, onerous,... See more
The Analog Life: 50 Ways to Unplug and Feel Human Again
Because right now there is someone
Out there with
a wound in the exact shape
of your words.
Out there with
a wound in the exact shape
of your words.
Sean Thomas Dougherty • “Why Bother” by Sean Thomas Dougherty
