2 October 2020
“The bus roared on. I was going home in October. Everybody goes home in October.”
This Week
There’s a new episode of Quiet Little Horrors to listen to, all about The Others. Share and enjoy.
I hope you’re all getting by all right. I’m working on it.
Links
“So as frightening as it is to live in this world right now, it at least gives me faith that if we actually put our resources in the right places and especially invest locally, we could succeed.” What to do in a potential post-Roe America.
A fuller picture of Artemisia Gentileschi.
“I've noticed that when software lets nonprogrammers do programmer things, it makes the programmers nervous. Suddenly they stop smiling indulgently and start talking about what “real programming” is. This has been the history of the World Wide Web, for example. Go ahead and tweet ‘HTML is real programming,’ and watch programmers show up in your mentions to go, ‘As if.’ Except when you write a web page in HTML, you are creating a data model that will be interpreted by the browser. This is what programming is.”
This oral history of Best in Show is wonderful.
“Aging gracefully means proving, day in and day out, that you can take anything — a private excoriation, a public beatdown, an endless trickle of negs, a quiet, continuous undermining, a slow erosion of your confidence, a sudden jolt to your system strong enough to make all of your illusions cave in on themselves. Growing old gracefully means you eat it and smile through closed lips. You pretend you didn’t hear a word, didn’t see a thing, are utterly in the dark, a gorgeous, silent vessel still built to hold the most merciless man’s limited imagination.” Are you aging correctly?
“The thorns on the rosebush right now are big. And there are many of them. And they’re sharp. These are the poisonous thorns of negativity. But the rose is so much bigger. It’s huge, and beautiful.” David Lynch has a message of positivity for you.
Reading/Watching/Listening
I’ve been having a rough time of it lately. What a great season for anxiety, isn’t it. My only recommendation this week is to read/watch/listen to something warm and comforting.
Stay cozy.
Love,
Jen
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This week’s quote is from Jack Kerouac.