Road Trip
or, 14 uninterrupted hours in the car with podcasts and audio books
A quick announcement:
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This looks a lot like Hwy 41 in between Cholame and Kettleman City CA
Hello Friends,
In t-minus a few hours I will be hitting the road to Arizona to meet up with family so I’m going to make this quick.
Runners world sends out a really great newsletter and this week was no exception.
“The midpoint of a race and run is a great time to have that out-of-body and steady mind chat with yourself. You’ve conquered hard things before, so keep going!”
Is she in my head right now?
By the end, I was in tears. They were talking about running, but if you’ve followed my story you know how much energy and healing I get from something like this.
I remind myself every day, sometimes hour to hour, and minute to minute that We #keepmovingforward because #wedohardthings
This is where I am today. Thank you for listening.
xoxo
Emily
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The coffee cup Nick uses to brew coffee and then empties into a travel mug for work is sitting on the counter by the sink. There is a coffee stain ringing the bottom of the cup. Before I make the homemade pizza I have planned for dinner, I will rinse this coffee cup so it is ready for him in the morning. (more)
Read This Week
Negative Space by Lilly Dancyger
Lilly Dancyger wants to understand her father who died suddenly as Lilly was entering adolescence. This memoir is an attempt to discover who her father was: a member of the iconic 1980s East Village art scene, an on again off again drug addict and a man who loved her. (more)
Links to Ponder
It’s a lot, but there was just too much good stuff.
A reader shares his post, Remember to Cry (Matthew Futter)
A beautiful essay of physical love in your 80’s (Modern Love)
A miscarriage in photos (The Cut)
Three awesome podcasts to binge on:
Wild Boys Two boys walk out of the woods of Canada and they have a story to tell.
Season two of Deep Cover has an unreliable narrator.
Cover Story investigates the perils of psychedelic drugs for treatment in the mental health space.
My phone doesn’t recognize me when I cry (Electric Literature)
“On some deep level beyond the reach of reason, we come to believe that the people we love are — must be, for the alternative is a fathomless terror — immortal.” (The Marginalian)
Stories breed empathy, which is why I love Humans of New York (Intelligencer)
Children’s books that double as self-help books (Lit Hub)
Is GoodReads a good thing? (Book Riot)
History of International Women’s Day (Pantsuit Politics)
Forming your identity as a woman without your mother. (Modern Love)
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