Hi hi,

If you are a person who cares about your windows being clean and you live in an American city in a building with a very specific but common type of window… I’m about to change your life.

Here’s some art, ideas, and internet for you:

1. There’s a lot you can do in a high-viz vest.

2. “When readers are deeply entranced by a story, they forget the storyteller completely. The tale is all they care about. But the storyteller cannot afford to forget and must always be ready to hold himself or herself to account. He or she needs to remember that the truth lends verisimilitude to the lies that surround it. If you tell your reader, 'Sometimes chickens will pick out the weakest one in the flock and peck it to death,' the truth, the reader is much more likely to go along with you than if you then add something like, 'Such chickens often meld into the earth after their deaths.' How stringently the writer holds to the truth inside the lie is one of the ways that he can judge how seriously he takes his craft.” This whole 2003 speech from Stephen King is worth reading. (Tabby!)

3. Make magazine collages like it’s simpler times.

4. John Waters talking about the period when he worked for Mary Oliver (that Mary Oliver) and Molly Malone in Provincetown: “They had this bookshop where you were allowed to be mean to the customers. It was really fun.”

5. Historic recipes and a pancake optimizer.

6. My household enjoyed “Voicemails for Isabelle,” a rom-com that also deftly handles a storyline about grief. (“She was just the love of my life.”) It’s also well-written and stars Zoey Deutch, who should star in every rom-com.

7. “It's nice to sit back and watch a man have the time of his life.”

8. Feelings: One million children have used LEGO’s MRI set to understand the medical scan they’ll undergo.

9. These veggie burritos, from Smitten Kitchen, are a great option for a meal to take to a friend who is going through it in one way or another. They’re delicious, healthy, easily adaptable, self-contained, and very portable: who could ask for more?

10. Really good dating and setting-people-up advice from Ina Garten.

11. Looking forward to: New La Roux.

12. The darkness lifts, imagine, in your lifetime.
    There you are—cased in clean bark you drift
    Through weaving rushes, fields flooded with cotton.
    You are free. The river films with lilies,
    Shrubs appear, shoots thicken into palm. And now
    All fear gives way: the light
    Looks after you, you feel the waves’ goodwill
    As arms widen over the water; Love,
    
    The key is turned. Extend yourself.
    It is the Nile, the sun is shining,
    Everywhere you turn is luck.
    
    —The Undertaking, Louise Glück

See you,

Laura

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