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And more nuns

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:

• Pema Chodron’s recent Tricycle meditation livestream (and all recent Tricycle meditation livestreams). Also, the Pema Chodron Foundation.

• A Cut story I wrote last year about Chodron.

• “The Nun” (1966), by Jacques Rivette [Wikipedia]. Here’s a trailer.

Elsewhere:

• “Afterward, I feel really energized and decide I need to document my attempts at the Meg Thee Stallion TikTok ‘Savage’ challenge. I’m … not good at it, but it’s so funny to be playful, privately. I do share the video with some friends who I think could use a laugh, though.” I enjoyed this Jenna Wortham Wellness Diary in Vanity Fair. (“I’ve been alone for almost two weeks. I miss touch. These tiny interactions are so deeply intimate. They are my lifelines in this moment.”)

• “Thanks to a potent mixture of anxiety, boredom, loneliness, and cabin fever–induced recklessness, people are revealing their feelings to the objects of their affection—‘shooting their shot,’ so to speak.” Ashley Fetters in the Atlantic on “Why People Are Confessing Their Crushes Right Now.”

• “An event like this is thus a uniquely powerful way of taking people's measure.” [Paul Graham]

• “Read an interesting article on the train today.” [Twitter]

• John Prine, “It’s a Big Old Goofy World” [YouTube]