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Kacey Musgraves with goat for Vogue

Hi, I hope you're having a good week. Thanks again to everyone who signed up for Letters In The Mail—you'll receive your first letter before the end of this month! Here are some lovely and/or meaningful things for you: 

  1. I sympathize with growing fatigue over the "Prompt Twitter" trend—people asking questions that invoke answers in the form of replies—but definitely spent an hour this week reading/crying over this thread from Nicole Cliffe: "What is the kindest thing a stranger has done or said to you?" (Especially this story.)  
     
  2. A short description of cultural appropriation for non-believers.
     
  3. A light installation in a Scottish coastal town that beautifully, chillingly shows sea level rise; an interview between Chris Hayes and David Wallace-Wells, the author of a new book on climate, that's full of mind-blowing facts, both upsetting and hope-lending; a mini-profile of Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish girl who was inspired by the Parkland teens to start striking for climate action last summer and set off a global movement that has already led to kids in 50 countries planning protest marches next Friday.
     
  4. Beautiful tomboys of the 1930s.
     
  5. The Gyllenhaal Experiment: A fun little game to test how well you can spell celebrity names.
     
  6. Why four-panel comics are on the rise. What are your favorites?
     
  7. The history and politics of lawns, which first became a thing during the French monarchy as a way to show off wealth in the form of land one possessed but didn't have to put to use; chasing the light over the course of a day at Versailles. 
     
  8. “You can do something you love just because you love it. You don’t have to monetize your joy."
     
  9. The Pride and Prejudice musical we deserve: "the bingley sisters probably have a really cool mean solo; lady catherine has this terrifying disney villain song in the garden; there’s for sure a song about ribbon shopping."
     
  10. Let me look at your face and see a heaven worth having, all
                             your sorry angels falling off a piano bench, laughing.


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<3,

Laura

P.S. Jobs: Design Director, WIRED; News Editor, Gizmodo; Internships at the podcast Death, Sex, & Money; Senior Product, New Initiatives, Duolingo; Technology Editor, The Atlantic; Brand Copywriter, Ellevest; Associate Director, Digital Strategy, International Planned Parenthood Federation; Digital Marketing Manager, Amnesty International; News Writer, Vulture; Operations Manager, Data for Black Lives; Associate Production Editor, Penguin Random House; Campaign Director, Communications Director, National Organizing Director, and other jobs at We Demand Justice; Program Associate, National Domestic Workers Alliance; Senior Features Editor, Vox Media; Developer Content Editor and Lead Editor, Glitch; Chief Technology Officer and Director of Communications, Democracy Works; Social Impact Manager, MTV, VH1, and Logo; Deputy Audience Editor, Huffington Post; Editor, Data & Society. Bye.

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