A good friend of mine and fellow blogger recently wrote anarticle about love, sex and cancer. She is disturbed by the multitude of womenwho simply have a slimmer chance at love than men. She has heard story afterstory of women whose husbands have walked out, sometimes leaving them withyoung children, …
First jobs can teach us all kinds of things. It can teach us the value of hard work and putting our heads down. It can teach us the resilience that comes with gritting our teeth and working even when we don’t want to. It can show us personal satisfaction and …
Portugal. The Man started releasing the music from their Woodstock album toward the end of 2016 and by the middle of 2017, a huge swath of the country discovered this band, which had been underappreciated for far too long. Ironically for the band, though not for the country, this album …
Every city-dweller has strong feelings about public transportation. We love it, but we can’t stand it. We’re grateful to have a bus stop outside the apartment building, but we hate how loud the train can be at rush hour. It gets us to where we need to go, but we …
My previous “Explorations” were simple bulleted lists, but I’m going to switch to paragraphs in order to better unpack why I’m grateful for these things. Up next? Cats. I have two cats: Charlie and Mouse. Charlie is mine, and she’s close to three years old. Mouse was adopted as …
Full disclosure—this record hasn’t come out yet. It is currently scheduled for an August 17th release. One single was released in May, while another was released in early July. Through a friend in the industry, I was able to get my hands on another handful of tracks before the release. …
I am grateful for running because: It’s easy exercise. It can be both solitary and communal. It’s a means of processing. It’s a reason to get outside. It provides a sense of accomplishment. It’s a way to focus. It’s free. Mark Grief hates it. (“With his speed and narcissistic identity, …
Bell Witch depicts loss in the abstract, its lyrics contemplating the meditative and melancholic limitations of what it means to be grateful. Their drummer, Adrian Guerra, provides most of the vocals on the record; he died prior to the album’s release. Though his presence hangs over every note on Mirror …
I am grateful for coffee because: It is fast and cheap energy. It provides aromatherapy. It’s a reason to stop working. It’s a reason to take a break. It’s warm. It tastes okay. It’s versatile. How did they figure out how to make it? It’s apparently healthy. It brings …
We can only ever be so grateful and thankful for the things and people that exist in our lives. This is a platform to, well, take note of my personal limitations of being grateful. In other words, this is a space for complaints. 1/10 Grateful to have missed my …
Why should you care about other people’s gratitude? Because as my grandma used to say, “Pay attention, and you might learn something!” Witnessing other people being grateful for things, like other types of happiness, can be infectious. If only you can gain the right perspective and tap into your empathy, …
In July of 2016, Phil Elverum lost his wife to cancer. The following spring, Elverum—the person behind Mount Eerie and the Microphones—released A Crow Looked at Me: a frighteningly candid exploration of love, death, and gratitude. The hermetically introspective songwriter details his experience with diary-like intimacy, producing the most clear-eyed …
