Adulthood starts when you stop waiting for someone to come and save you.

“Susan Sontag was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that 10% of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that 10% is merciful, no matter what, and that the remaining 80% could be moved in either direction” ~ Kurt Vonnegut Born on this day, in 1922

I’ve never seen a better graphical depiction of grief

As you get older, you realize there is no adult, only people who started to take themselves way too seriously.

Being a journalist is 25% interviewing, 25% researching, 30% writing and 20% googling synonym for words like “increase.”

This passage from Joan Didion's BLUE NIGHTS:

your annual reminder that O Holy Night, the best Christmas song, was originally penned as an anti-slavery anthem

When Joan Didion wrote, "My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests," I really, really felt that.

“I’m not telling you to make the world better. I’m just telling you to live in it.” - Joan Didion ❤️🙏

A glimpse of #Christmas Eve celebrations at Ramakrishna Mission. Monks & devotees spread across 205 centres in 22 countries of Math, celebrate this occasion with due solemnity amidst cakes, candles & carols. যত মত তত পথ- the great saints simplified religion for us, yet we fall!

RAIN “a terrific urge” ~ Raymond Carver

World begins unprecedented third attempt at 2020.

Happy New Year! "My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both." - Søren Kierkegaard

Apparently in Luxembourg your commute is part of your workday and that made me wonder how cities would look different if the employer was obligated to pay you for your commuting time. The difference it would make in the kinds of infrastructure that is prioritized.

The word 'curfew' originates from the medieval British practice of ringing a bell to tell people to extinguish all fires at home at night, as an untended fire could burn a whole town down. Curfew comes from 'Couvre-feu, French for cover the fire. A few more related word origins!

why do writers continue to attempt sentences when jane austen already wrote the perfect one: “if I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more”

Do not ask "what is going to happen to me?" Ask "what action am I going to take?" This was written by Xenophon over 2,000 years ago; truly good advice is timeless. Here are 12 other pearls of ancient wisdom:

It’s always the right day to share a poem by Naomi Shihab Nye. 🕯 🍁 “Soon the nights will lengthen…”