On Having Your Cake and Freezing It Too
“To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow,” wrote Marilynne Robinson in Housekeeping. “For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it?”
Ada Calhoun • Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give
This post made me think about how we apply ‘earth’ solutions to ‘air’ problems. We think we need more comfort when actually we are drowning in comfort and crying for more meaning and connection.
https://open.substack.com/pub/cityquitters/p/practicing-being-human?r=pcicf&utm_medium=ios
I threw out corroded batteries, used and unused. I tossed plastic containers that had lost their lids and lids that had lost their plastic containers. I turned to the fridge. Once we had a glorious cat who could open a fridge door with a claw; one year he let himself in and shut the door behind him and ate half a cooked turkey breast and meowed to
... See moreElizabeth McCracken • The Hero of This Book
I have thousands of photos of my children but few that I’ve set aside to revisit. I have records of virtually every text I’ve sent since I was in college but no idea how to find the ones that meant something. I spent years blasting my thoughts to millions of people on X and Facebook even as I fell behind on correspondence with dear friends. I have ... See more
sublimeinternet.substack.com • "What Does Sublime Actually Do?"
As the cake contained the energy of her own labor, eating it gave her a feeling of efficiency as well as a strange stirring of auto-eroticism.