“A stunning work of the imagination—a brilliant evocation of the way war, exile, and freedom defined the Cuban nation from the start, and how the wounds of the early republic haunt us still.…A spectacular achievement.” —Ana Menéndez bookshop.org/p/books/one-br…

What I appreciated most about the Elizabeth Catlett exhibition at the National Gallery of Art is how much it uses testimony from Catlett and from those she influenced. Two examples that continue to resonate for me:

1. My friend Anna Betbeze sent me this: Education After Auschwitz Theodore Adorno : Theodore Adorno : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive archive.org/details/educat… via Internet Archive

“…[S]he didn’t need to abuse anything to create, though she herself had been so badly abused. Her paintings are in a sense walls against abuse—they receive the abuse and hold it and transform it into cleanness and sanity.” —Rachel Cusk for The Yale Review

Morning pages before Pilates class…

Not every town has an espresso & wine bar named after a poem (& a very fitting one, at that)—but not every town was the childhood home of Edna St. Vincent Millay, one of our best. Happy to be back in Camden, Maine.

“It is also painful to focus on the art, but impossible to process the world as anything but art.” —Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Villavicencio

Oh hey, I wrote and published a romance thriller this year and opened a bookstore too🥺🌸

Me, excited about a new project (sound on)

4TH GRADER: “Immigrants built this country, but now one man (Trump) has created hatred against them… every day my mother drops me off at school I feel scared…”

Walking home at dusk, Rockport, Maine

Morning run, Rockport, Maine

Talking to the plants and trees are some of the most sacred conversations I’ve ever held. There’s something about connecting with an ancient language deeper than words. They remind me that I am never truly alone. Nature embraces us in the most divine ways.

nytimes.com/2025/07/22/cli… via @NYTimes

Child Trafficking Drama 'Dear Men' Tackles India's Darkest Trade in Hard-Hitting Short, Trailer Unveiled (EXCLUSIVE) variety.com/2025/film/news…

All of life is just a practice in letting go and making room. Over and over again.

Maybe just recognize it anyway, now.

“This post-literate world favors demagogues skilled at code-switching between the elite language of policy and the populist one of meme-slop.…It does not favor those with little money, little political power and no one to speak up for them.” nytimes.com/2025/07/28/opi…