Sublime

I made my way through Megan’s collection of magazines and Sex and the City DVDs, consuming them simultaneously with the tiny portion of my brain required for each.

Maria Popova, who writes the popular site The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings), spends her days reading old books and essays. She’s passionate about finding ideas, beauty, and wisdom in these texts and then connecting them in her own unique conversation with the world.

She’s wearing the same red and yellow BAM! T-shirt from before, which means (a) she slept in it, (b) she owns several identical T-shirts, or (c) she’s a cartoon character—all of which are appealing alternatives.

Here’s a thing I believe about people my age: we are the children of Hogwarts, and more than anything, we just want to be sorted.