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“You and I, there’s air in between,” Rogers sings on the chorus.
Maggie Rogers’s Journey from Viral Fame to Religious Studies
“The word for world is forest” — Ursula K. Le Guin
Maria Farrell • We Need to Rewild the Internet
"My life amounts to no more than a single drop in a limitless ocean; yet, what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?"
—David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
Lord, I confess I want the clarity of catastrophe but not the catastrophe.
Like everyone else, I want a storm I can dance in.
I want an excuse to change my life.
Like everyone else, I want a storm I can dance in.
I want an excuse to change my life.
Poem: Catastrophe Is Next to Godliness
"Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."
—Arthur C. Clarke
"I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, an
... See moreJohn Updike line, “Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.”
Netflix’s ‘Cheer’ Made Monica Aldama a Star. Her Life Has Been Hell Ever Since.
It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. Well all know that our time in this world is limited. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly mome
... See more"There was an episode, one of my favorite moments in Star Trek, when Captain Kirk looks over the cosmos and says, 'Somewhere out there someone is saying the three most beautiful words in any language.' Of course, your heart sinks and you think it's going to be, 'I love you' or whatever. He says, 'Please help me.' What a philosophically fantastic id
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