resonance - #1

11.18.24 -- back-to-back notes today:

from Lynn Steger Strong's Substack Practicing, on Lorrie Moore and beauty:

the past couple years I’ve been trying to make sense of beauty. I’ve been trying to seek it, see it, hold it, offer it to other people. I’ve been trying to hold tight to the import and value of it on its own terms.

AND

from Jack Cheng's newsletter Sunday, #433:

I’m trying to create beautiful spaces, ones teeming with life.

birthday burn

11.16.24

there's something so powerful about intergenerational gatherings, like the one around this fire -- there to celebrate a 30th, we were the elders to some while also reveling in the stories of our elders around us