My friend, Emily
Ask Emily
My friend Ashlie made my week by starting a new collaborative blog for us:
It’s an advice column where I give meaningful answers to life’s most challenging questions. Follow it for free advice that will most likely change you forever.
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This was the best movie I’ve seen this year. I love the contemporary arts and I can’t wait to go to the MoMA.
I think the feature I most admire about my apartment is the toilet paper holder. It’s just a metal rod you slide the roll onto. It’s so easy!
And good night.
ugh.
I wanna take this song to a nice spaghetti dinner, talk about our likes and dislikes over wine, tuck it into bed, stay up late reading to it from “Love: Ten Poems” by Pablo Neruda in Spanish, cuddle the shit out of it during the night and wake up early to make it French press coffee and a breakfast sandwich. xoxo
John & Mary
John & Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who also had never met.
- from a freshman’s short story
They were like gazelles who occupied different
grassy plains, running in opposite directions
from different lions. They were like postal clerks
in different zip codes, with different vacation time,
their bosses adamant and clock-driven.
How could they get together?
They were like two people who couldn’t get together.
John was a Sufi with a love of the dervish,
Mary of course a Christian with a curfew.
They were like two dolphins in the immensity
of the Atlantic, one playful,
the other stuck in a tuna net —
two absolutely different childhoods!
There was simply no hope for them.
They would never speak in person.
When they ran across that windswept field
toward each other, they were like two freight trains,
one having left Seattle at 6:36pm
at an unknown speed, the other delayed
in Topeka for repairs.
The math indicated that they’d embrace
in another world, if at all, like parallel lines.
Or merely appear kindred and close, like stars.
- Stephen Dunn
Love and Science
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You guys, look what science can do! Dead diamonds! I also read on the internet that you can turn yourself into a pencil.
