Jasmine

Lists, and verbs, will carry you many a dry mile.

To imitate or not to imitate — the question is easily satisfied. The perils of not imitating are greater than the perils of imitating.

Always remember — the speaker doesn’t do it. The words do it.

Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.

The idea must drive the words. When the words drive the... See more

beauty is not a luxury

We’ve adopted this new way of speaking to one another because it’s the only way to stay afloat in the flood of messages we have to deal with. But self-creation comes through language, through expressing yourself. By constantly compressing the way we speak, we’ve lost a lot of nuance, and I think we’ve also compressed ourselves in a way. And we’ve l... See more

Over 40 million people rely on SNAP to afford groceries, and the program is confronting its largest cuts in history. Even if you personally don’t use food stamps, your local grocery store could go bankrupt after losing SNAP customers.

Dogma - “a belief held definitively and without the possibility of reform or change” - and distance from the reality of the consumer - are held up by Huntington as the two biggest sins a strategist can commit. Amen.

Sure, certain items became synonymous with Brat summer — a red wine-stained tank top, oversized sunglasses and anything in ‘Brat green’. But the movement’s real power was in its broader, ineffable ethos. It wasn’t just a look — it was a world you could step into.