1. Quote of the week: Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen, Anthem 2. Desired item of the week: I feel like we all need to just accept that it’s boots season. I know, I know, [...]
Don’t worry. This is not a story about reconciliation. It was the day of the earthquake. I texted him before I was even out of my swaying building, emailed back and forth during my whole terrible three hour drive home, and kissed him like it was the end times when he showed up at [...]
Bear with me a minute through the dull bit. There’s a point, and even a picture, at the end. Something to think about from Carl Jung regarding self-hatred (emphases mine): Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest art to be simple, and [...]
1. The word of the day…nay, the century…is Kummerspeck. It translates, from German, as “grief bacon” and refers to the weight one gains from emotional overeating. Seriously, Ben and Jerry’s needs to make Break-Up Brickle ice cream with candied griefbacon, ribbons of salty caramel to represent tears, and bits of peanut brittle to represent one’s post-dumping fragility. They [...]
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