Stumbling Can Be Lovely - Longreads
How can a thing that causes so much alienation also be a source of growth and joy? How can something that estranges us from so much of the world also bring us closer to it?
Andrew Leland • The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
Feeling lost and free, I started thinking about my in-between time not as a dead end to escape, but as a space worth exploring. And with that mindset, I quickly became reacquainted with an old friend and ally: curiosity.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
On Giving Up: Adam Phillips on Knowing What You Want, the Art of Self-Revision, and the Courage to Change Your Mind
Maria Popovathemarginalian.orgUnless, of course, your last partner did a number on you, and afterward you didn’t feel quite like yourself anymore. Weren’t sure, anymore, who you were. Unless, of course, you remember. Remember every not-great experience you’ve ever had with a partner. How they made you feel wary and angry and fearful and then, how they also told you to stop acti
... See moreChristina Joyce Hauser • The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
I know now I was grieving something , the death of an ambition. I started attending reading events at Green Apple Books, my local bookstore, because it was something I liked in grad school, and I had to get myself out of the house. Going to those events was (is) a way of traveling without moving; they have afforded me an incredibly valuable educati... See more