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Where you go when you dream (opens the original)
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I used to claim I didn’t like hearing people recount their dreams. It often felt like listening to someone drone on about a European vacation you had no reference for. But I’ve softened this stance.Sure, some people aren’t as skillful at retelling them, but in every case, a dream is a glimpse into someone’s most mysterious elements. Listening to a dream is like listening to someone say: Listen to my inner mythology. Listen to this strange, fabulist story about my revealed spirit. If you like kno
You never read the same book twice (opens the original)
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I’m an internally competitive reader, a reader who has been compulsively hoovering up text for three decades. If you read with this kind of (misplaced) urgency, what’s the point of reading something again? I re-read for the same reasons I revisit old friends. It’s not that profound: I want to reencounter that memory, revive that affection. There’s also something gratifying, on a soul level, to read something old again, something which has never been touched by a whiff of AI or tech paranoia or C
The 10 best things on my bathroom counter (opens the original)
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Whenever I think I have a Great New Idea for a letter, I realize that I’ve already written about it before. It’s late August, and I’m tapped out. My brain is emptied of all but my babies, Iris Murdoch, and daydreams about loafers with colorful socks.Because I have nothing going on, these are the skincare and beauty products that have brought me joy in 2026. I am not sponsored by anyone; I simply like to evangelize. (You can take the homeschooled girl out of the 1990s nondenominational church, bu
Why cultivate interior taste? (opens the original)
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When I read the classic Field Guide to American Houses, I was struck by one thing: Americans have always loved mixing it up.<source typ
Leave behind a garden (opens the original)
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On my morning walk to work, I pass a small, shabby house that once belonged to an old woman.She was very tiny, under 5 feet tall and hunched over at a 45-degree angle, but she worked in her garden every day and walked in the neighborhood with two dirty, unleashed white terriers always trotting behind her. For over a year, she tamed her backyard into a little garden of her own making. She did everything herself. It was scrappy. She found odd bits of wire and bamboo to hold up plants. She heroical
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