Read with me: Emails, art, and a strike in the sky
Read with Me is my weekly selection of articles from across the internet— an assortment of current events, commentary, contemplations and more.
On “delight” as a daily practice
Tending joy and practicing delight via On Being (Podcast). This conversation between Krista Tippet and Ross Gay offers a lens for our difficult times: to see joy not as a privilege, but as a foundational, common experience of connection.
Snail-mail on the sounds of Spring during pandemic
Together Apart: Kathleen Dean Moore & Hank Lentfer via Orion Magazine: Kathleen Dean Moore and Hank Lentfer exchange letters meditating on daily life and listening to nature during coronavirus.
The email chain of our new (corporate) normal
“Hope you’re staying sane: A Coronavirus email chain” via The New Yorker: “Sorry to be e-mailing you at a sensitive time, but I wanted to follow up on the below—have you had a chance to review the PowerPoint for next quarter’s national sales meeting?”
The protestor living on a 82-foot-tall traffic camera tower
“In South Korea, a Protester’s Lone Fight Against Samsung” via New York Times: Kim Yong-hee has been staging sit-ins and hunger strikes for workers rights above the busiest intersection in Seoul for more than 300 days.
A peek at what artists are making at home
“I Have to Make Use of What Is at My Disposal” via New York Times Magazine: What Zanele Muholi, Titus Kaphar, Kara Walker and other artists are creating during quarantine.
THOUGHT OF THE WEEK
“Imagine where we might end up if our leaders started each day immersed in the splendid simplicity of voices far removed from the echo chamber of human speech.”
—Hank Lentford, “Alone Together”