What might have been

> View this post on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/CBmJ9d5Dp0h/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading] Okay, now for a small, coruscating delight: face masks featuring centuries-old astronomical art and natural history illustrations. I originally made these just for myself and a handful of beloved humans,…

Getting There

> "In this age, which believes that there is a shortcut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest." —Henry Miller. Do you know https://t.co/PfNWSWUUd3? We do lots of long interviews about…

Time

> "The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today." American abolitionist and author, Harriet Beecher Stowe was born #OnThisDay [https://twitter.com/hashtag/OnThisDay?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] in 1811 #ReadMoreWomen [https://twitter.com/hashtag/ReadMoreWomen?src=hash&ref_…

We've been here before

> "I want someone to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, and its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarrelling and reconciliation I need privacy - to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order." Virginia Woolf #ReadMoreWomen…

Just the beginning...

> A cartoon by Elisabeth McNair. pic.twitter.com/ia9Yb1Kf1T [https://t.co/ia9Yb1Kf1T] — The New Yorker (@NewYorker) June 9, 2020 [https://twitter.com/NewYorker/status/1270380813440483328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…

Democracy Dies in Darkness?

> Sometimes democracy dies in plain sight pic.twitter.com/cDpJJKcN7a [https://t.co/cDpJJKcN7a] — Igor Levit (@igorpianist) June 3, 2020 [https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1268102632855556096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] Igor Levit asks the Washington Post, and us, to reconsider its motto.…

Getting Older

> "As we get older we either become our worst selves or our best selves." —Steve Martin — Jeffrey Cufaude (he/him) (@jc46202) May 14, 2020 [https://twitter.com/jc46202/status/1260749766033637377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…