lines i love
“A gardener is not someone who grows flowers but one who cultivates the soil. You need to delve into the ground’s organic underworld to appreciate the soil’s potential for fostering life.So, to create something truly alive and nourishing, we must be willing to immerse ourselves in the rich, fertile soil of our own humanity — the depths of our... See more
The joy is despairing. God can be a lot.
Isabel Cowles Murphy • god the toddler almighty
A pandemic beacon of hope
A eulogy for TikTok
There are many reasons for this shame. But the biggest one, I believe, is that love songs remind us of our vulnerability—especially sad love songs. They are incompatible with macho stances or ultra-hip poses.
Ted Gioia • Why Love Songs Are Badass
That's the thing with the internet. It is not a singular place: the internet is made up by many internets. Some are connected, and some are not. This makes it hard to talk about the internet because your internet is unlikely to be similar to mine. Even when we visit the same social site, we experience different worlds. Where D sees a subcategory of... See more
March 27 at 13:24
It's like the internet, but made for humans
"The photos of them together-smiling, entwined, behatted, insouciant-were like all photos: weak lies at the time but full of truth and power later on. A weird form of time travel."
from I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore
His answer was original and counterintuitive: To Schrödinger, the essence of our aliveness is not that we eat, drink, and bonk.