June 2024 ⁂ Don't have a reading goal
I’m Chad Comello and this is Chadabout, a monthly update about what I've been writing, reading, and doing.
Hey all,
The hot heat finally broke here in Chicagoland, though as we’re only partway through summer my redhead-related aversion to prolonged sunlight and heat is still in the thick of it. Send your #thoughtsandprayers for my pasty white skin 🙏
On to the links...
✍️ MY RECENT POSTS
Want to read more? Don’t have a reading goal.
Not WorkFlowy, and other tools of the moment.
Six thoughts on Titanic.
How In the Heights explains the COVID era.
The latest batch of Recent Views.
🔗 FROM THE INTERWEBS
Turn your writing into jazz.
“Always go to the footnotes.” A delight listening to The Devil in the White City author Erik Larson on Armchair Expert.
Boys get everything, except the thing that’s most worth having.
Super Mario Bros., typewriter edition.
👍 CURRENTLY
Reading: BoyMom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity by Ruth Whippman
Watching: The Bear season 3
Listening: Haydn String Quartets by The Coull Quartet
💬 QUOTE
“The stories we hear and tell help us determine what is possible for us, how we should be showing up in the world. And in the vast majority of situations we are likely to encounter in the course of a lifetime, there is no hero and no villain, no death and no glory, but just a bunch of needy humans kvetching over who said what. Learning to navigate that with grace and skill is the beating heart of human connection.”
- Ruth Whippman, BoyMom
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Photo: Played pickleball with the 5 year old for the first time and he was surprisingly good!