I’ve mourned deaths before, and often enough that I can forecast how I’m dealing with this: A few days of sifting and settling. Then I’ll sit down and write: about how Marzi lived in the world and in my world, about the recurring themes of her life, about prized memories (of which there [...]
My grandmother died in her sleep last night. My mom called at 6:40 this morning to tell us, so the news is now mixed in with the dream I was having at the time, which only adds to the surreality.
I’m about to drive down to Boston, this morning. It wasn’t a [...]
go to http://www.apple.com/trailers/touchstone/apocalypto/teaser_large.html
Scroll forward to about the point featured in this picture:
maneuver frame by frame forward until you reach this frame:
Marvel. Continue scrolling forward if you want to; at this point it won’t matter.
I mean, putting a single frame easter egg of yourself into your own movie trailer is fine [...]
Kate-made guacamole on toasted tortilla chips (awesome)
just-barely-cooked brussels sprouts with mustard butter (Kate won’t try them, so all of these little green jewels are mine, mine! I tell you.)
glass of Riesling
Friday night
nothing else.
(Thanks are due Marnie and David, without whom Kate might very well still believe she didn’t like guacamole.)
Where Work Is a Religion, Work Burnout Is Its Crisis of Faith — New York Magazine
Long article, but some very sharp descriptions of attitudes and feelings I’m seeing all around me (and in me, in some places).
The whole thing is well worth reading, but here are a few of the things that leapt out at [...]