Curated links.

Favorite Essays I Read in the Past Two Weeks:

• What I learned from hiking with a partner who strode ahead—and wouldn’t slow down
• The Demulcent of shame
• Notes from grief camp
• Who walks always beside you? (TRIGGER WARNING for child murder)
• What my musical instruments have taught me
• Revisiting my Rastafari childhood

Favorite Writing Advice I Read in the Past Two Weeks:

• Why we must not cede writing to the machines
• Find love in something you’re writing

Favorite Short Stories I Read in the Past Two Weeks:

• .Valley of the moon, Paul Yoon
• Colorín Colorado, Camille Bordas
• Secrets live inside my son’s ears, Joanna Pearson

Favorite Sentences I Read in the Past Two Weeks:

“And because Antarctica is different, we should treat it differently: Let the last relatively untouched landscape stay that way.” The last place on earth any tourist should go

“Pain is a great teacher.” Everyone just wants to forget: the power of collective amnesia

“What we read matters.” A better internet for readers

Favorite Paragraphs I Read in the Past Two Weeks:

“Overtourism isn’t a new story. But Antarctica, designated as a global commons, is different from any other place on Earth. It’s less like a too-crowded national park and more like the moon, or the geographical equivalent of an uncontacted people. It is singular, and in its relative wildness and silence, it is the last of its kind. And because Antarctica is different, we should treat it differently: Let the last relatively untouched landscape stay that way.” The last place on earth any tourist should go

“This is how water dismantles a mountain: it enters tiny cracks in the stone, then freezes and expands, thaws and contracts. It goes on freezing and thawing, expanding and contracting year after year like a beating heart, slowly accumulating enough tension to crack a rock, to split a mountain.” Observations on ice

“Luck doesn’t just happen, it’s created. You can do things to increase the odds of serendipity. Meeting more people makes you lucky. Learning more skills makes you lucky. Being willing to fail makes you lucky. Offering to help others more often makes you lucky.” How to get lucky

“We cannot not care about our work. Even as we let it go.” Happily ever after being your weird and wonder-filled self

Etcetera

• The 100 best books of all time
• [It’s rare to see] a woman just thinking in television or film—let alone a woman of color
• ‘Where should I live?’
• You still need to tell your friends if you get covid
• Dear Pulitzer Prizes: It’s time to recognize literature by Noncitizens
• The last place on earth any tourist should go
• When you don’t want to talk about it