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What moves you to tears? (opens the original)
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Last night, as if on auto-pilot, weather-weary from the deluge of Nor’easter alerts and wiped out from a long week, I pressed play on the 2021 proshot of Come From Away and cried.1 The film is a hopeful, nested time capsule that opens on shots of a shuttered Times Square. Text onscreen grounds us: 20 years have passed since 9/11 and we’re fourteen months into shutdown.The film cuts to masked theater fans smizing at the camera, eager to be inside again. The lights dim
Goodbye, Dolly. (opens the original)
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I can’t listen to Dolly while writing about Dolly. Especially when pressing play can transport me into “The House of the Rising Sun” (1981) or trick me into belting about “Jesus & Gravity” (2008). The queen had range. Praise.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!A2e8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/ht
Summer, slow and steady (opens the original)
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Hi. It’s been a minute.The summer light is fading earlier and the town pond is closed during the week now that the lifeguards are back in school. And yet, my urban kid still has two and a half more weeks before the bell rings on her first day of middle school. We’re living in the liminal right now.<d
🧈 Sugar, Butter, Feelings (opens the original)
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The biggest fight my daughter and I got into this summer (so far) was over a squishy stick of butter. We were at a street fair in Oakland, we were probably both hungry. And the vendors were tantalizing her with soft, gooey, squeezable younameits: dumplings, neon cubes, strawberries, and so many other indescribable beings. I made a momentary alliance with another grown-up refusing to add to her kid’s collection. I bought myself more time, “let’s see what else is here.” Which only set up an even l
Stealing sentences in between cutting it up. (opens the original)
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Yesterday I woke up to a text from a friend who reached out to report that they are so engrossed in their summer read that they arranged their kids’ activities in ways that facilitated more nose-in-book time for themself. YES! I endorse this parenting strategy.Everyone talks about beach reads, but I think summer invites the opportunity for escapism without getting sand stuck between your toes. Especially for parents (and teachers) these weeks off from school offer a break from the typical routin
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