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In brief 🩲 * Journal: Whichever way those old clocks tick * Listen: The grim new initialism on the block * Practical: I never met a metaphor like this before * Art: Coming full circle to “literal is best” * Update: This is Sparta From the journal 📖 We’ve reached that moment that I figured would

In brief 🩲 * Journal: Slowly making a break for it * Practical: Delisting your inbox * Listen: Charging into the outside wild with naught but a whim From the journal 📖 I nearly fell backwards avoiding a snail making a break for it across our wooden floorboards. It was early evening and the light

In brief 🩲 * Journal: Stretched to the limit * Practical: The shape of the task at hand * Read: Effortless production from bed From the journal 📖 Our high school hockey coach, whom we called “Hang”, used to measure and log how far past our toes we could reach from a sitting position. Hang

In brief 🩲 * Journal: Volcanoes are safe, honest * Practical: Create a map, testudo your time * Read: Catalogues of LOLs return From the journal 📖 Omid is a 6 foot 4 Iranian man with well-groomed hair who kicks the standing bag at our taekwondo gym so hard it tumbles away end over end

In brief 🩲 * Journal: An insurance movie scene about demise * Practical: Map every second of every day, but calmly * Quotable: Wait – why am I talking? From the journal 📖 Today I spent a compulsory hour with an insurance broker named Jake hypothesising when I might die. It’s fractionally easier to talk

In brief 🩲 * Journal: The barest exertion possible * Practical: Testudo that calendar * Read: Be found for weird and wonderful things * Quote: The twitch-tickling problem of getting squiff-squiddled From the journal 📖 Recently, while swimming lengths, I couldn’t help but notice the guy in the shallow lane next to me. Now, I’

In brief 🩲 * Journal: Now, don’t take this the wrong way, but... * Practical: A lifetime is made up of these blips strung together * Art: A grizzly bunny and Sir Quentin Saxby Blake From the journal 📖 My daughter Ida came into my office with her friend Enid the other day. Ida