Bleeding Hearts
A comic about flowers
Hi, I’m Edith, and this is a newsletter with comics and links. I’d love to know what you think; please feel free to reply to this email!
Links:
Bleeding hearts, a.k.a. dicentra spectabilis [Wikipedia]
Flower Meanings: Bleeding heart.
Flower Meanings in general. [Almanac]
Other links:
“Tolstoy wrote them; they couldn’t be that bad. Now I sincerely wish I had never touched them.” That’s from “Leo Tolstoy’s Children’s Stories Will Devastate Your Children and Make You Want to Die.” [LARB]
“Quarantine ABCs,” from Aude White. [Instagram] (For instance: “Knitting.” “Loneliness.” “Puzzles.”)
“Your pandemic sex slave is ready for you now,” from Joanna Arnow. [Instagram]
“The psychology of what happened to me during this phone call is confounding. But I know it happens to thousands of people every single day. I thought I knew better. I didn’t.” I was riveted by Jillian Anthony’s tale of getting scammed.
“68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice,” from Kevin Kelly. For instance: “Anything real begins with the fiction of what could be. Imagination is therefore the most potent force in the universe, and a skill you can get better at. It’s the one skill in life that benefits from ignoring what everyone else knows.” Also: “When you get an invitation to do something in the future, ask yourself: would you accept this if it was scheduled for tomorrow? Not too many promises will pass that immediacy filter.”
“Over the next 10 years, I ran and ran and ran.” That’s not a great pull quote, but I loved this WIRED essay on life and marathon running, from the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Nicholas Thompson.
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