Welcome to the weekend-- I hope yours contains multitudes, and that you sleep well. 

Neil Shubin's "The Universe Within: The Deep History of the Human Body" has been my extremely reassuring bedtime reading lately. Shubin walks us through how the history of the universe itself can be seen in the makeup of the human body, and the Big Picture Perspective helps me breathe a little more easily: “A slight—and by that we mean about one-billionth of 1 percent—excess of matter over antimatter was enough for matter to take hold in the universe.” I got my copy here.

My writing career missed the '90s alt-weekly scene by a few years, but Sarah Miller's incisive essay on Popula about The English Patient, journalistic ambition, and growing up as a writer and thinker still struck a strong chord with me. "If you write thousands of sentences that have absolutely nothing to do with what you think or feel those sentences are still what you will become. You can turn yourself into another person. I turned myself into another person." Read it all here.

Last time: Writing advice for perfectionists, plus not doing the dishes.

Onward,

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