“Joy is an act of defiance,’ said the Khan. ‘With joy, we win, even if we lose. To have lived well is a victory all its own, for we all die. Death is unimportant to the laughing warrior. A poet makes tragedy glorious. That is why.”  ― ...

Headlights. Joy. Ross Gay. “Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” ―E.L. Doctorow Dear Writer Friends, I am struggling. It is summer. I want...

My hunch is that joy is an ember for or precursor to wild and unpredictable and transgressive and unboundaried solidarity. … Though attending to what we hate is often all the rage (and it happens to be very big business) noticing what we love in co...

Summer Solstice. Teddy Bears. Hidden Doors. Seth Godin This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year's threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath. — ...