Komorebi

> View this post on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/CAGupzdjP8W/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading] I learned from @themarthabeck that there is a beautiful Japanese word for this play of windy light through leaves: komorebi. Which might just displace tsundoku as my favorite untranslatable Japanese…

Brutal

> "I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates." T. S. Eliot — Philosophy On Ice (@PhilosophyOI) April 27, 2020 [https://twitter.com/PhilosophyOI/status/1254717369840271360?ref_src=twsrc%…

I've always like used books

> "Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack." - Virginia Woolf #ReadMoreWomen [https://twitter.com/hashtag/ReadMoreWomen?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] pic.…

Another Great Visualization

> Great 30-second video from the Ohio Department of Health that illustrates the impact of social/physical distancing.https://t.co/uVDWcKXdtK HT: Perry Logan Director 3M Corporate Safety & Health — Jeffrey Cufaude (he/him) (@jc46202) April 23, 2020 [https://twitter.com/jc46202/status/1253341832437620738?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…

Changes

> We wrongly think Old People were always old; but those rheumy eyes and fragile bones once celebrated all of youth’s energetically sweaty cravings and passions. — Marcel Proust (@ProustTweet) April 20, 2020 [https://twitter.com/ProustTweet/status/1252284652376686600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] > The old age of my acquaintances…

The Significance of Baking

> Best yet, through baking we relive our connections with the people we’re now separated from. I make a crumble and remember my sister teaching me to rub the cold butter and flour with my fingertips. I think of my niece and nephew squabbling over whose turn it is…

Patching Oneself Up

> "The worst of getting old," said Winnie, "is the time one has to spend in patching oneself up." English novelist, Miss Read died #OnThisDay [https://twitter.com/hashtag/OnThisDay?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] in 2012 #ReadMoreWomen [https://twitter.com/hashtag/ReadMoreWomen?src=…

Aging

> Co-sign. "One thing I’ve absolutely noticed about myself, and which should be true as you get older: it’s not that you want to die, but you are less attached to life. You’re less panicked." —Fran Lebowitzhttps://t.co/PfqSDwC9fg — Jeffrey Cufaude (he/him) (@jc46202)…