Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
She was a harbinger of the sub rosa, the new world awaiting me in just a few weeks.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
“She caught up with herself,”
Ruth Ozeki • A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel (ALA Notable Books for Adults)
And who had need of his globes here?
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo
“The real test of every human community is how it cares for the most vulnerable, those like Angela who cannot sustain even a simulation of independence and autonomy.”
Tish Harrison Warren • Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep
Eventually one has to find a way to eat and be kind to one’s body. I am not a metaphysician, but this is the body you’re going to have the entire time you are here.
Anne Lamott • Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
To have the dignity of one’s reality: this, I realized, was why I worked so hard to find language to tell my story. I wanted to show how the emphasis on the psychological nature of chronic illness in a culture that pathologizes the failure to “overcome” robbed people of grace, while instructing them to suffer their illness with grace.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
anxiety at the end of life—frequently