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Dr. Samantha Boardman, a Harvard-, Cornell-, and University of Pennsylvania–trained positive psychologist and the author of Everyday Vitality,
Liz Moody • 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success
Joan Didion on note keepers: Lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss, the notebooks were a way of noting: This is what it was like to be me.
Suzanne Scanlon • Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
What a relief to know she was out there. These books that are life rafts, these authors who never know exactly what they’re doing for all of us when they’re writing them. I can’t imagine that when they sit down to work on them, they think: Today I will save a life.
Jami Attenberg • I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home
There You Are
There you are
this cold day
boiling the water on the stove
pouring the herbs into the pot
hawthorn, rose;
buying the tulips
& looking at them, holding
your heart in your hands at the table
saying please, please to nobody else
here in the kitchen with you.
How hard, how heavy this all is.
How beautiful, these things you do,
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... See moreThe authors of the study, Masaki Kobayashi, Daisuke Kikuchi and Hitoshi Okamura, concluded that we all ‘directly and rhythmically’ emit light: ‘The human body literally glimmers. The intensity of the light emitted by the body is 1000 times lower than the sensitivity of our naked eyes.’