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Hi hi hello! I hope you had a good week. Here are some lovely and/or meaningful things for you:
- What's the most optimistic thing you believe?
- "I had stopped impulsively checking TikTok after a month—I already have enough digital tools to insure that I never need to sit alone with the simple fact of being alive. But I could understand being thirteen and feeling like the world would be better if as many people as possible could be seen by as many people as possible all the time. I could imagine experiencing a social platform as a vast, warm ocean of affection and excitement, even if that ocean needed money that it could generate only by persuading you not to leave."
- "Why am I following Aaron Paul's wife on Instagram?"
- If you're around a certain age you may also have Sarah McLachlan songs stuck in your head after reading this oral history of Lillith Fair.
- Twitter is good sometimes: An octopus that changes color while it's dreaming; a masterpiece of a dance shot in one take; flexing Victorian babes; twice-divorced birds.
- Miss Manhattan: If you live in or have ever visited New York, you've seen Audrey Monson dozens or hundreds of times on statues, memorials, and bridges around the city.
- One Rothko per hour; every single video Prince ever made.
- "Every once in a while, the story you have been working so hard on will fall apart on you, and you’ll remember that life is impossible, and you were dumb to try, and you’ll never make that mistake again. But sometimes story trouble is the best thing that can happen to you. Because when you rely entirely on your original plan, it’s easy to forget just how complicated and contradictory humans can be." Some lessons executive producer Tim Howard has learned from his years at Reply All.
- It's time.
- Jesus got up one day a little later than usual.
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Bye,
Laura
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