Weekly things
35 things I've learned in 35 years
Things to read
Getting too good at the wrong thing from
Time travel, free will and building the moon from
“But what if, instead of a line that goes perpetually up and to the right, with the goal of reaching a future point of “success,” the point of being alive is expansion?” —
on is it dumb to quit something I worked hard to get?
A thing to ponder
The Cart
by Mary Ruefle
The empty grocery cart is beginning to roll
across the empty parking lot. It’s beginning to act
like Marlon Brando might if no one were watching.
It’s a joyous sight, but it might not end all that
happily, the way someone light in the head
does something charming and winds up dead.
My thoughts are so heavy, you couldn’t lift
the bier. They are so light and stray so far
someone in a uniform wants to bring them in.
The world might be in agony, but I don’t think so.
Somewhere a woman is swathed in black veils
and sm…