"Walking barefoot as a monk was a constant reminder of how we humans are always connected to the earth, bound by gravity, ever aware of the heft we carry—some of us more than others."

Ira Sukrungruang for The Sun: https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/600-on-walking

#Longreads #Essay #Reading #Writing #Walking #Body #Exercise #Monks #Thailand #England

On Walking

<p>To love walking is to love the body, and this has been a barrier for me. Walking requires us to be a physical presence moving in a physical space. Your body is on display, with all its jostling parts and creaky joints. I know it’s vanity—this self-consciousness, this awareness of other people’s eyes—but it was something I shouldered when I walked, something that made me seek the comfort of a climate-controlled car.</p>

The Sun Magazine
Buchvorstellung: Welt am Abgrund? - Ein Essay

Politik,Kritik,Gesellschaft,Wirtschaft,Lesen,Sachbuch,Essay

"For the liminal space curious, semi-abandoned suburban shopping malls are a perfect example of this phenomenon: something purpose-built that’s long-since lost that purpose, yet sits in limbo awaiting its next iteration." —Lana Hall for Hazlitt https://hazlitt.net/longreads/dead-mall-society?src=longreads #liminal #liminalspaces #travel #essay #longreads
The Dead Mall Society | Hazlitt

Standing in the wreckage of these spaces unlocks a sensation people often crave, but can’t name.

Hazlitt

"Nothing is ever simple. Nostalgia protects and nostalgia poisons, and still we go back for more."

Jess Love for The American Scholar:
https://theamericanscholar.org/the-last-good-thing/

#Longreads #Essay #Nostalgia #Streaming #DVDs #Technology #Parenting

The Last Good Thing - The American Scholar

DVDs, streaming, and the price of nostalgia

The American Scholar
‪TY, ‪@peterbreuer.bsky.social‬, hallo #Bluesky fam, habt einen erfüllenden Tag! Was sind eure schlimmsten Ängste, und wie kürzt man sie neudeutsch* ab? *Siehe Screenshot mit #Essay und #ALText: #inclusion is #fairness. #AuthorssOfBluesky, #writingCommunity: bis zu 8.3k Zeichen/Beitrag! #Humor

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Luke Howard’s *Essay on the Modification of Clouds* (1865)

First cloud taxonomer and a poem by Goethe.

The Public Domain Review
In the depths of winter.

It's fair to point out that it shouldn't have taken so long, and yet, it's still taking so long, clearing out the ruins of my old place, which I've held onto in a numb instinct that I've joked is me using my old apartment as the most expensive storage space

Last Night I Dreamed I Was You

Sexual Liberation 1920s Style: The Screenwriting Career of Josephine Lovett – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, December 2025

In the Silent Era, before the existence of the Hays Code (and largely a cause for it), many female screenwriters wrote heroines who flouted the brazen sexual freedom of the new century, a specialty of Josephine “Jo” Lovett. Born in October 1877 in San Francisco Lovett would spend some time as a lead actress on the Broadway stage before moving to Los Angeles to both act and write what were called scenarios for the bulk of her career.

https://rosannewelch.com/2025/12/20/sexual-liberation-1920s-style-the-screenwriting-career-of-josephine-lovett-dr-rosanne-welch-script-magazine-december-2025/

#script #screenwriting #history #women #writing #writer #column #essay #film #movies #tv