“The weird gift of loneliness is that it grounds us in our common humanity.”
Everything has changed so quickly. One week ago, I was writing to you from my living room, slightly concerned about the pandemic. Now I’m what one might describe as considerably more gripped by fear. I’m officially in my third trimester of pregnancy, and while I thought I had planned for everything around the birth of my baby, I did not plan for this. Of course, none of us did. This virus is disrupting lives and our society in unimaginable ways (for one, we lose a lot when we stop touching one another). But one thing I am finding helpful in this uncertain time is optimism. There are bright spots: The world is uniting in impressive ways, and the value of previously unsung heroes (I’m looking at you, teachers) is being recognized. To do our part in helping the world get back to normal as quickly as possible, we should stay home, stay connected and, if all else fails, make cornbread. — Alexandra March |
 | | Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks,” 1942.2020 Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY, via Art Resource, NY |
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“Loneliness isn’t just a negative state, to be vanquished or suppressed. There’s a magical aspect to it too, an intensifying of perception that led Virginia Woolf to write in her diary of 1929: ‘If I could catch the feeling, I would: the feeling of the singing of the real world, as one is driven by loneliness and silence from the habitable world.’” |
SXSW Was Canceled. We’re Releasing This Film Here Instead. |
 | | Kate Novack |
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Lessons From My Grandma on Art and Sex |
 | | Annette was a sexually confident woman who fell in and out of love with impressive, sometimes domineering men, while never allowing herself to become dependent on any of them.via Collection of Howard and Cherry Kaneff. |
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“Born into enough wealth that she could have glided past the traumas of her age, she consistently chose rebellion and risk. Lucky in the leaps she took from one place, and one marriage, to another, she kept moving wherever her restlessness took her.” |
‘He Didn’t Want to Lie in a Grave That Couldn’t Be Visited’ |
 | | Graves of people killed during the Syrian war, in the town of Qamishli in northeastern Syria.Baderkhan Ahmad/Associated Press |
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“In the end, my father was not laid to rest in his homeland. But Syria did become a graveyard, where an aspirational vision of the world and of who we are and what we will tolerate now lies.” |
Criminals Should Serve Their Sentences Psychologically |
 | | John Karborn |
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“We know that a person cannot live for dozens or hundreds of lifetimes, but what if they could perceive themselves to have lived that long? What if they could have the perception that thousands of years have passed?” |
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