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I love Oliver Burkeman’s weekly look at what’s trending in the self-help world. His New Year’s Resolutions column is typically sensible: pick your battles.

txt.fyi: Write something, hit publish, and it’s live. There’s no tracking, ad-tech, webfonts, analytics, javascript, cookies, databases, user accounts, comments, friending, likes, follower counts or other quantifiers of social capital. The only practical way for anyone to find out about a posting is if the author links to it elsewhere. Allen Jacobs notes in his …

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An imagining tool for 2019

Eddie Smith, from 2016: Modern survival is antithetical to everything evolution programmed us for. Today we have to: Eat much less than is available Move much more than we have to Take many more daily risks than we have to Today, complacency is the tiger rustling in the bushes. Vulnerability is the key to longevity. Too often, I equate vulnerability with fragility. They’re not the same thing.

Driving down backroads from the Jordan Lake Christmas Tree Farm, we passed a white clapboard church with a gravel parking lot and a graveyard. On my thematic purity rating for backroad country churches, it rated a 9 out of 10. (Points are deducted for paved parking lots, brick churches, and modern architecture.) But the sight …

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What I believe, for now.

Listening to Mrs. Dalloway.

A story from my sordid past, told by my mom.

Taken by Liz with her iPhone 7, Sunday afternoon, on the kitchen counter. The only peony this year.

Richard Dalloway brings home flowers for his wife.