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What The Tibetan Book of the Dead Teaches Us About Life
When my grandmother died, lamas stayed for five days next to her body, guiding her through bardo by reading from The Tibetan Book of the Dead.
When My Marriage Ended, I Learned to Relish the Space I Was Given
Being left behind is not a disadvantage. It is an opportunity to grow and an opportunity to live life on my own terms.
What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Mental Health and Medication
Experiencing a severe reaction to medication taught me many interesting things about the limits of my own body, but also the limits of the world around me.
Samin Nosrat, Phil Rosenthal, and the Spirit of Eating with No Reservations
Do we hold the specialness of each meal at the core of our travel? Or is a meal that happens during a vacation a shadow of the memories it serves to create?
The Brain-Smashing, Pity-Bashing Art of Blind Punk
Embracing the stigma and using it as a weapon feels punk.
Don We Now Our Gay Apparel: Loving the Feminine Glamour of ‘8 femmes’
Ozon’s attention to an archly stylized femininity in ‘8 femmes’ spoke to my own idea of what my own gayness could and would be.
How Do You Count All the Squirrels in Central Park?
“If you’re worried and you can’t sleep / count your squirrels rather than sheep.”
Banchan, the Only Food I Like to Share
“You can tell a lot about a Korean restaurant based on the banchan it offers.”
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What I Learned from the Master Beekeeper
He prefaces all his beekeeping sessions with a proposal to examine hives without gloves. It teaches a beekeeper to be more gentle. It’s easier to be gentle without gloves.
When You Hate the Movie Your Lover Loves: On Tom Hanks in ‘The ’Burbs’
It’s easy to think—as Ray does in ‘The ’Burbs’—that you can know a lot about a person from what they value.