Oh, hi friends!
Boy oh boy, is it Friday? It is Friday.
I’m on a crowded train right now (right now = Thursday night) on the way to a few days at the beach.
A five-year-old boy is chattering across the aisle. I know he’s five because he told everyone he’s five.
I’m knocking knees with my darling Colin, who’s deep into rereading War and Peace. His concentration is both the sixth and seventh wonder of the world.
Soon we’ll eat the cold sandwiches I brought from Brooklyn Larder. I’ll answer some outstanding emails, maybe read a few pages of Hal Prince’s memoir.
The train will pull into the station and everyone will head off to their own beach weekends.
And I can’t help but think how close we all exist to one another. How close and yet how not-close at all. Who will the five-year-old become? What will happen to the couple sitting next to us? Will the man who wasn’t lucky enough to get a seat feel his knees stiffen up in the middle of the night? Are they hurting now?
I don’t know.
I do know that I love the train. The train moves you.
Have the best weekend.
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“On the contrary, his eyes wet with tears, Pierre looked joyously at this bright comet, which seemed as though after flying with inconceivable swiftness through infinite space in a parabola, it had suddenly, like an arrow piercing the earth, stuck fast at one chosen spot in the black sky, and stayed there, vigorously tossing up its tail, shining and playing with its white light among the countless other twinkling stars. It seemed to Pierre that it was in full harmony with what was in his softened and emboldened heart, that had gained vigor to blossom into a new life.”
From, what else, War and Peace.
How one simple question helped me get an instant raise — and make as much money as my male counterpart. Love this story Nina Semczuk wrote over at Money.
And here’s a bunch of stuff I desperately want to read but haven’t gotten to yet. I have faith they’re good though, so have at it!
How astrologer Susan Miller gets it all done.
The great Toni Morrison’s legacy as an editor.
Manage your personal energy to improve your quality of life.
15 CEOs on how much sleep they actually get. (Too scared to read — will it encourage me to get more? Or less?)
Woman breaks ‘cancer-free’ bell. Yesss. STRENGTH. (h/t Chelsea J. Smith!!)
An interview with Taffy Brodesser-Akner — I think she talks about how she wrote her book by keeping up a Google Doc tab all the time and just…writing in it consistently. IS IT THAT SIMPLE?!
Not a Newsletter is a very smart not-a-newsletter with insights into the newsletter ~industry~.
PS — To keep from overloading my browser and feeling like I always have too much to absorb, I copy-and-paste links to stories I want to read into Notes, where I also draft all my newsletters. (It’s like a poor-man’s version of Pocket.)
The benefit is that I file away that incredibly pressing article I must read right now — and know I can always come back to it later. The downside is that I usually never do. But, I think that’s OK? I just wanted to share part of my process in case you feel overloaded with Things to Read right now. You do have a choice. You can X out of everything right now! Be wild! Be free!
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara