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Posted: May 30th, 2019 | Tags: Uncategorized | No Comments »for some reason i just love this
for some reason i just love this
latest things:
john dug up some old home videos of us from college and high school and oh it was intense viewing. good memories, but also kind of traumatizing. i’d kind of built up my own mythology about those days — “i was square but happy,” “nerdy but actually cool” — which is…eh…true, but also doesn’t account for all the searching, awkwardness, trying to figure out who to be, HOW to be, during the ages of 12-23. i had the most amazing friends, but i was such a late bloomer, and basically you could see all that melodramatic seeking in the videos. was painful to witness; i was so relieved to be past it. to have figured it out (relatively) (still struggle with a different kind of seeking) (though i’m trying to frame my searching as curiosity) (life is not about flatlining, right?). the moral of the story is that some kids get out of adolescence easy; some DO NOT. (or does anyone really get out easy? maybe it’s all a question of hard or harder or hardest.)
good chuckles in Lyta Gold & Brianna Rennix’s “RANKED: 10 Paintings of Judith Beheading Holofernes”
bought arnold lobel’s days with frog and toad for my nephew’s birthday — i’d forgotten most of it, but what a heartbreaker. from the new yorker’s “‘Frog and Toad’: An Amphibious Celebration of Same-Sex Love”:
When reading children’s books as children, we get to experience an author’s fictional world removed from the very real one he or she inhabits. But knowing the strains of sadness in Lobel’s life story gives his simple and elegant stories new poignancies. On the final page of “Alone,” Frog and Toad, having cleared up their misunderstanding, sit contently on the island looking into the distance, each with his arm around the other. Beneath the drawing, Lobel writes, “They were two close friends, sitting alone together.”
today i described a bar as “jumping”
A TALE
by nicole ittner
IT JUST CAN’T BE TIME FOR AARP ADS YET
whoever makes candy is insane