I had saved her from her fate at the shelter, but she saved me 100 times over in the next seven years.
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They don't call it 'falling' for someone because it feels painless – they call it that because while it's happening, you don't know how the land will actually feel.
Youthful transgression or the smug confidence of privilege?
— De Elizabeth, Yes, the MAGA Hat-Wearing Students Are Teenagers. That Doesn’t Exempt Them From Responsibility
I have a postcard mouth. All it ever says is: wish you were here.
Most of the headlines just basically talked about rich kids or influencers who went and got stuck on an island — to me, that felt like a very one-dimensional story. I was interested to see if there was something else there. I was interested in trying to put a human face on the story and take you on…
— Tim Grierson, Why Netflix’s Fyre Festival Documentary Isn’t Interested in Mocking Millennials
Over the past few years I’ve done things I would never have had the gumption to do when I was younger, like take a Beyoncé dance class, or use the word “gumption” in an article that other, much-cooler individuals will read. But there’s true beauty in realizing no one is watching to see if you’ll fai…
— Meghan Nesmith, 8 Weird Signs You Know You're Finally Growing Up
At these moments of national crisis, the words that spread and the words that were heard were not the words of politicians, they were the words of poets.
— Susannah Herbert, Donna Ferguson, Poetry sales soar as political millennials search for clarity
Modern heartbreak is sick with being watched, it’s breakups playing out on twitter feeds, it’s unfollowed unfollowed unfollowed.
The artist sees through the light to catch sight of what is as yet invisible and thus receives a guide for bringing the work to light.
The limit gives the thing to the world endlessly.
Don't walk away, I wanted to see you again.
It’s refreshing to hear anyone—especially a Republican—actually hopeful on climate.
— Eric Holthaus, The conservative case for taxing carbon pollution
I lose sleep over climate change almost every single night. I can’t remember how long this has been happening, but it’s been quite a while, and it’s only getting worse. I confess: I need help.
Time is running short, but that doesn’t mean we should be reckless. We are fast entering a world in which there are no good options remaining to tackle climate change. Geoengineering is dangerous, but so are aerosols, and so is accelerating climate change. Absent a real-life Hollywood miracle, we’ll…
— Eric Holthaus, Surprise, we’ve been accidentally geoengineering for decades … and we can’t stop now.
With climate, we are finally starting to realize that this is a story about people, not about science, graphs or charts. It’s really a story about ourselves and how we interact with the rest of the world.
I'm a meteorologist by training and a journalist by profession. For the past 12 years, I've focused every working day on understanding, explaining, and trying to alleviate the effects of climate change. Yet global carbon emissions are more than 20 percent higher now than when I started work as a cli…
I don’t know if it’s the right decision, but I know that I need to preserve my own well-being to continue to fight for the planet.
Speak your truth. Share your mess. Let yourself be seen. It leads to more intimacy, depth & meaning—not less.
When you tell me that you want to be fearless, what I fear is that you’ll lose your real-ness.
If you, like me, know there is something inside of you to express, and a kind of life you want to create, but you keep getting in your own way—I get it. I know your pain. I’ve been in your shoes.