📷 She’s endlessssssssss tmblr.co/ZZ2XbydVus2qea…

Repeating the mantra “Words Matter” as a rationale for censoring words or silencing others, is often simply code for “Coddle Me.” quillette.com/2023/03/13/wor…

'how to fill with gentleness the void between who we feel we are on the inside and who our culture tells us is staring back from that mirror' themarginalian.org/2015/09/03/gra…

'... other waves will come. And you’ll survive them too. If you’re lucky, you’ll have lots of scars from lots of loves. And lots of shipwrecks.' elephantjournal.com/2015/10/this-i…

'Marriages are enclosed by an opaque shell; we don’t tend to talk, publicly, about how they reverberate with the buzz of disconnection'  newyorker.com/culture/cultur…

Bought on a whim for the cover alone... Turned out to be the book I needed to read. A true unfolding of what it means to be human. Stellar stuff Jude Rogers 💙

*we fling our self-righteousnesses at each other from the two-finger slingshot of what was once the peace sign* themarginalian.org/2016/12/05/joa…

📷 The golden hour, Robin Cracknell tmblr.co/ZZ2XbydxWk2bGe…

More importantly, because a camera is a prism. And most importantly, because my son is my prism. The world that I see through his eyes is new and strange, terrifying and beautiful. lenscratch.com/2023/06/chris-…

Stuart Parker, blancmange impersonator & cannibal I’m a die-hard lefty who is also utterly dismayed by the left’s adoption of the nonsensical notions that A) there is a pure position in all matters; B) they are uniquely qualified to know what it is; and C) they therefore have the right to police everyone else

Feelings are important but science is about evidence

Sinead O’Connor is a hero to every woman for her determination to be herself and to speak her truth.

“the film was not ruined; rather, the tenuously visible images referenced resiliency and vulnerability, censorship and subversion, erasure, and the possibility of its reversal.” washingtonpost.com/photography/20…

Barbie subtitlepoetry.wordpress.com/2023/09/10/bar…

“Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents take place.” theguardian.com/books/2015/feb…

Dylan’s advice for programming one’s brain “not to think too much”: “Go out with the bird dogs” hotpress.com/culture/album-… via Hot Press

Looking for great movies over Christmas? bfi.org.uk/features/where…

wepresent.wetransfer.com/stories/maria-…

Author rightly says... These questions are never asked of fathers. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Do you notice that people in general touch much less now? You rarely see couples walking hand in hand or kissing. Parents and children used to walk hand in hand and now seldom do. Moms don't swoop onto their toddlers and smother them with kisses hugs and tickles. People do not