Year's End: The Writing
Here are my Five Favorite Essays from The Crossover Appeal this year, presented in perfect tear-and-share format, perfect for passing around at your leisure.
Gratitude and What's Ahead
Hello all.
Two quick things in place of a full suite of recommendations this week.
First:
Gratitude. This little newsletter
November 20: A flurry of labor for a moment of tasting
This week’s recommendations hover around themes of quiet meditation while others brace for difficult conversations and chaotic jumbles of noise.
November 13: Stuttering in bleach and lights
I think about how good it suddenly is to race with ghosts.
October 30 - I cut my teeth on weaker men
I'll be honest, I've never been a Halloween guy. Nothing against it, at least
not conceptually.
October 22: Your patterns are still in place.
When you take a recommendation from someone else, you take a little bit of them into your own index and when you recognize your own tastes in the preferences that someone else has left behind, well, it’s a powerful gift.
October 16 - It’s such a funny thing, a mystery allure
When I started writing The Crossover Appeal I kept coming back to the word,
dilletante. Generally speaking, dilletante is a
October 9 - Never saw you coming but I saw the smoke
It's been sort of a weird week, right? Maybe the Zuckerberg outages threw things
out of whack more
May 29: The one with the tiny man in it
Who knows what machinations lurk inside the mystery box of knowing and being known, it's just the way things are.
October 2 - Imagine choosing what you want to be?
Consider this your save the date for coming back to your autumnal self, when you pull what you love in close and ready yourself for the cold.
