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Coachella Valley

Beautiful Places To Travel

Coachella, Underground - Longreads

At Longreads, journalist Gabriel Thompson reports on the real people of California's Coachella Valley in "Coachella, Underground." #longreads

At Tin House, poet and essayist Patricia Lockwood writes a beautiful piece on writing in an age of toxicity and distractions online. #PoweredByWordPress Unit Of Time, Literary Terms, Tin House, Balloon Pop, Looking Out The Window, Writers Write, Headspace, Writing Advice, Tiger Lily

Looking Out The Window

How Do We Write Now? - Tin House

At Tin House, poet and essayist Patricia Lockwood writes a beautiful piece on writing in an age of toxicity and distractions online. #PoweredByWordPress

Rape culture

A comic by Wellington-based artist, writer, and mother Sarah Laing (https://sarahelaing.com) on rape culture.

Watercolor reportage: The Women’s March Paris

Jessie Kanelos Weiner at https://thefrancofly.com shares watercolor reportage from the Women's March in Paris.

"And in so doing, we all know exactly how Brock became the man he became. He became the man he was raised to be." (https://alyssaroyse.wordpress.com) The More You Know, The Help, Healthcare Administration, Its Time To Stop, Say What, Miscarriage, Patriarchy, Thought Provoking, Girl Power

The More You Know

The Help

Healthcare Administration

Private Site

"And in so doing, we all know exactly how Brock became the man he became. He became the man he was raised to be." (https://alyssaroyse.wordpress.com)

"I am always looking for signs to show me that I’m actually here. That I’ve actually done something. I write on my typewriter and cherish the full page that was once blank. I covered it with ink, hammer-stroke after tiny hammer-stroke. I did that. I am here. I am alive." (https://oneaardvark.wordpress.com) Weather Cards, Spring Rain, Truth Of Life, Blue Orchids, Meteorologist, When It Rains, No Better, Fresno, Brewing Company

Catharsis of Mundanity

"I am always looking for signs to show me that I’m actually here. That I’ve actually done something. I write on my typewriter and cherish the full page that was once blank. I covered it with ink, hammer-stroke after tiny hammer-stroke. I did that. I am here. I am alive." (https://oneaardvark.wordpress.com)

Supermoto

Open Letter

Watercolour Tutorials

An Open Letter to Vice Media’s Natasha VC and to Anyone Else Who Thinks I’m Lying

An Open Letter to Vice Media’s Natasha VC and to Anyone Else Who Thinks I’m Lying (https://leifegreenz.com).

"Some people have a 401K to secure their financial future. I have a letter of apology from Anna Wintour." A fourteen-year-old model sees the softer side of the devil in Prada. (https://luluwrites.net)

"It was ten minutes dominated by the ghosts of young lives, cruelly destroyed by radiation, upheaval, trauma." Peter Zarko-Flynn documents Chernobyl in a series of photo essays, 30 years after the disaster (https://pzfphotography.com/chernobyl). Abandoned Buildings, Abandoned Places, Spooky Places, Strange Places, A Moment In Time, Foto Art, Chernobyl, Winter Scenery, Photo Essay

Chernobyl: 30 Years On

"It was ten minutes dominated by the ghosts of young lives, cruelly destroyed by radiation, upheaval, trauma." Peter Zarko-Flynn documents Chernobyl in a series of photo essays, 30 years after the disaster (https://pzfphotography.com/chernobyl).

"The prose is so thick that to me it has the closeness of a summer day; you can feel yourself choking on the humidity, feel the grit of Macondo sticking to the back of your neck, and all you want to do is lie on the tile floor, eat a banana, and sweat." Honoring literature with pie -- a frozen banana pie, for "One Hundred Years of Solitude," at https://thepiebrary.com. Banana Pie, Frozen Banana, Banana Muffins, Favorite Desserts, Favorite Recipes, Call Me Cupcake, Delicious Desserts, Yummy Food, Healthy Deserts

(He Was To Remember) Iced Banana Pie

"The prose is so thick that to me it has the closeness of a summer day; you can feel yourself choking on the humidity, feel the grit of Macondo sticking to the back of your neck, and all you want to do is lie on the tile floor, eat a banana, and sweat." Honoring literature with pie -- a frozen banana pie, for "One Hundred Years of Solitude," at https://thepiebrary.com.

Jennifer K. Armstrong (https://jenniferkarmstrong.com) connects the dots on powerful women publicly dealing with cheating. "Their version flips the script on the trope of the pathetic doormat who suffers through her man’s infidelity silently." Bill And Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Bart, Beyonce Lemonade, Monica Lewinsky, Clinton Foundation, Presidential Libraries, Ex President, Good Wife

Bill And Hillary Clinton

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Presidential Libraries

Ex President

Good Wife

Beyoncé, Hillary, and ‘The Good Wife’: The Power of Women Scorned

Jennifer K. Armstrong (https://jenniferkarmstrong.com) connects the dots on powerful women publicly dealing with cheating. "Their version flips the script on the trope of the pathetic doormat who suffers through her man’s infidelity silently."

Tents inside a warehouse in 'The Jungle,' the camp where hundreds of migrants are living in Calais, France, from where they try to cross the English Channel to make it to the United Kingdom. Photograph by Mary Turner. Calais Jungle, Troilus And Cressida, English Channel, Train Table, New Century, Calais France, Street Photography, Around The Worlds, Camping

Homes of Calais

Tents inside a warehouse in 'The Jungle,' the camp where hundreds of migrants are living in Calais, France, from where they try to cross the English Channel to make it to the United Kingdom. Photograph by Mary Turner.

African American History

Your Phone Was Made By Slaves: A Primer on the Secret Economy - Longreads

On the new triangle trade, and the surprising connection between modern slavery and ecological disaster.

Extremely Funny Jokes

Cinema

Snarcasm: Let's Talk About How the Oscars Don't Matter (Again) - Jon Negroni

"It must have brought back the memory of being a young man, seeing his first child and holding her for the first time; now, here he was 50 years later, holding her in those same hands." https://myswede.wordpress.com/2014/09/12/4/ Well Said Quotes, Alzheimer's And Dementia, Steve Jobs, Forever Young, Primary School, Raise Awareness, Moving Forward, Good People, Make Me Smile

Well Said Quotes

Alzheimer's And Dementia

thanks, mr. jobs.

"It must have brought back the memory of being a young man, seeing his first child and holding her for the first time; now, here he was 50 years later, holding her in those same hands." https://myswede.wordpress.com/2014/09/12/4/