Big Little Losses – Rebecca Pacheco’s beautiful piece about dropping her daughter off at preschool for the first time literally rang every bell for me. Those preschool days are long ago, but the feelings I had there are still a part of my daily life. “I see it all before me, and there’s so much I can’t see, and it’s all too much.” Yes. Yes. Daily.
The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale
The Beauty of the Ordinary – Pico Iyer’s piece is a beautiful evocation of the ways that fall reminds us that life is beautiful precisely because of how ephemeral it is: “…but as we pass into a deeper season in our lives, we come to see that the season’s special lesson is to cherish everything because it cannot last.”
Unbelievable – I watched this whole series in a weekend and haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since. Powerfully told and alarming at the same time.
What are you reading, thinking about, watching, and loving lately?
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Random Q: Is Unbelievable the story that was first uncovered by the NPR program and Ira Glass?
i do not know!