- Unattainable Earth | the space between the rain – drops.
“For him, the understanding will arrive one Sunday afternoon weeks later when he is with his wife, walking the circular concrete path around a pond in the Botanic Gardens. He will look out over the pond and then remember the image, of his foot next to hers in the water. Their feet were so close, centimetres apart, but they never touched”. - Knowledge | Nature: International Weekly Journal of Science
“Because they had to rely on memories of memories, the past was hard to know. And if you did not know the past, how could you learn from it? How could knowledge be preserved other than by memory?” - My Lost Year: A Brief Memoir of Disconnection and Return | The Bygone Bureau
I’m always nostalgic for the ’90s. - FML: The Couple That Need (sic) To Take Up Scuba-Diving Together | Cowboy Caleb: A Gonzo Journal
“One of my pals has a new obsession which he never fails to share every single sordid detail of, every day, without fail, with me.He has gotten it into his head that his wife of 1 year, is having an affair.
‘Is it because your wang can no longer achieve tumultness (sic)?’ I ask”.
- Rescue | Waiter Rant
Bar the title, I think it’s quite interesting detective fiction.
Category - Shared Items
- All Hail the Stand-Up Meeting! | Freakonomics
This NEEDS to become a part of Singaporean culture. - Meet the Marriage Killer | The Wall Street Journal
“While the word itself can provoke chuckles and eye-rolling, the dynamic can potentially be as dangerous to a marriage as adultery or bad finances. Experts say [nagging] is exactly the type of toxic communication that can eventually sink a relationship”. - Willpower Part III: How to Strengthen Your Willpower and 20 Ways to Conserve It | The Art of Manliness
Skip the introduction and head straight to the ’20 ways’ list. - “Center of the Universe” by Simon Rich | The New Yorker
“On the third day, God’s girlfriend came over and said that He’d been acting distant lately.‘I’m sorry,’ God said. ‘Things have been crazy this week at work.’
He smiled at her, but she did not smile back. And God saw that it was not good”.
- With a Little Less Parental Support and Encouragement, I Could Have Been Somebody | Thought Catalog
“If I had the opportunity to relive my ‘tween’ and teen years, I would exhibit a such a level of insubordinate and rebellious behavior that my parents would have no other choice but to knock me around and issue insults and threats that, with any luck, would provide me with the deep emotional scarring needed to produce multiple works of true literary merit”.
- “I Love You, You Smell Nice” | ELLE
“When we say, poleaxed, ‘What’s that perfume? I really like it,’ here’s what we mean: Stealing a kiss in a cab, drinking a Manhattan, which I have never drank before, in Manhattan, where I have never been before tonight”.
- Found Someone’s CD Collection On The Sidewalk | Thought Catalogue
“I’m a child of the 90s. I remember what it meant to build a CD collection: spending hours at Sam Goody or FYE or Tower or some other vaguely intimidating mall record store buying albums one at a time for $16 a pop, reading the back of the jewel case for 10 minutes, trying to decide if the band’s other nine songs were as good as the one you heard on the radio, knowing they probably weren’t, and buying it anyway”.
- Navigating Love and Autism | The New York Times
For all my autistic friends.
- Let Simon Decide
Let Simon Decide is a decision-making site that gives advice to help you decide what option you should choose, in the event you should ever find yourself in a dilemma.
- How to Get and Stay Married | TIME Ideas
- Know that the grass ain’t greener
- Fight fair!
- Be good, giving and game
- Never stop flirting
- Find mentors
— I’ve never been married, but I’d say this advice works, even for couples in long-term relationships.