You possibly can’t calm the storm. What you are able to do is calm your self, and the storm will finally cross. Calmness is a human superpower. The flexibility to not overreact or take issues personally retains your thoughts clear and your coronary heart at peace, which steadily offers you the higher hand in all…
Homo Vitruvius and American Samizdat function houses for my weekly inventive writing and mental exploration. HV persists as my unique and first Substack in these pursuits; AS arose in resistance to Trumpism and is devoted to its defeat. From memoir and poetry to fiction and drama, largely in HV, to historical past and political philosophy,…
I’m an enormous fan of caprice. Whimsy makes strange objects really feel particular; it makes on a regular basis moments really feel memorable; it provides playfulness and power to life. So I’m all the time delighted to find some contact of caprice–a robotic vacuum named Cleanopatra, googly eyes on a practice automotive (thanks, Boston), a…
Pictures has at all times been about capturing gentle to protect moments. For over a century, that meant exposing a roll of movie after which disappearing right into a darkroom or ready for a lab to develop the pictures. It’s simple to overlook how totally different this course of was earlier than digital cameras got…