Suburban survival
I read that Annie Dillard, when composing Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, was living in the suburbs and raising a family.
Rough Drafts
Field Notes
The man with the most
“Swimming cultivates imagination; the man with the most is he who can swim his solitary course night or day and
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Infinite City
Was already desiring this book and then I saw the author’s autograph. Smitten. https://www.instagram.com/p/BTas3CwliFO/?taken-by=dylan20
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The new paternity leave
“Taking paternity leave is so rare that it’s not a question of how much time you’re going to take off,
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We are Lent into Each Other’s Keeping
“We are lent into each other’s keeping.” Our time with each other is borrowed, its duration is unknown, and that uncertainty makes it precious.
Talk loudly and carry a big schtick
The people who are paid to get corporate messages across outnumber daily news journalists by nearly 10 to 1. That’s not even a fair fight. So what responsibility do PR people have?
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So in all the delights of the world almost
A gentleman never dances so well as the dancing master, and an ordinary fiddler makes better musique for a shilling
How You Got My Attention
One of today’s top recommended stories in my Medium feed is a piece intriguingly titled “How I Got My Attention Back.” I
The difficulty with complexity.
As a society, we are facing a crisis of understanding. Fake news is just the latest expression of a deeper