Hello,

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

1. What if we just stopped?

2. “My name is Noelle, and I'm a fan of the world's largest operating steam locomotive. I used to think this was a unique fact about me.”

3. Post-divorce, Curtis Sittenfeld revisits an essay she wrote 11 years ago about marriage. (She also made a divorce playlist.)

4. A foundry for bastard web fonts.

5. What’s going on with modern ceiling fans? (“I think it’s really important that there exists a fan that’s trying to kill you.”)

6. Have some New York City pigeon ambience; hey Zohran, can we get some tulip cycle wands?

7. Assertions I’m convinced by: Video podcasts are the new late night; influencers are the private equity of culture.

8. Find out how dark (or not) the skies above you will be.

9. “Your 10-minute radius matters more than nearly anything else about where you live,” and other observations about the psychology of space.

10. “What’s the most annoying thing to say to a designer?
    ‘The clothes looked really comfortable.’ You could just kill yourself.” This little interview with Michael Kors is my favorite kind of celebrity interview. Maybe they had media training 20 years ago, but they no longer give a fuck.

11. “Sorry pal, that doesn’t work on me” is the most powerful sentence in the English language.

12. I lie on the deck on my back, listening to the cragged,
    woody bristle of a borer bee chewing the whole thing
    
    out from under me, thinking of my friend Robert
    visiting his childhood home in the mid-western
    
    hardwood forests, how, as he tramped among the groves
    and gullies, one old oak told him it was the same, and not,
    
    yet he was moved to love the way the place had grown
    up around his memory of it and was new. To protect
    
    happens first and mostly in the heart, though precious
    little separates it from possession. What effort
    
    to keep from carving your initials there, like a spoiled lover.
    What toil to prevent some other from doing the same.
    
    Some tasks are small and easy graces—the way the lupine
    cups the rain in its sleeves all day, the way my sister taught
    
    my grandmother, before her mind went, two new ways
    of expressing herself: Fuck, and I love you. Some tasks
    
    you do with fear and tenderness together: axing
    the cloud-bitten ice of the trough again and again because
    
    the farm animals must drink, killing a crow to hang
    on a fencepost for the sake of the fruit, or carrying
    
    the bright-bodied wasps out of the house in the morning
    hours when they are still too cold to sting.
    
    —”A Brief History of Preservation,” Corrie Williamson

Bye,

Laura

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