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“Talking with them I realized how many people, like me, had run away from hard conversations. How we did it on purpose, and sometimes without realizing. How people who needed to talk waited for invitations to spit out the hard stuff, and how good it felt when they did.” Happy Friday, y’all. Summer is drawing […]

“What is it, precisely, that you work for? What real goodness do you seek at the end of your own long line? “

We learn a lot as we move along; if we’re lucky, we might shed some old wisdom for better understanding.

We like to think Longreads furnishes more than simply emergency reading, and that’s certainly true this week.

We connect in such curious ways; thus are we transformed.

“Before we became such a complex profusion of cells, we were driven by chemical impulse, which a truffle knows better than anyone. That’s why they fetch the prices they do. Why animals will harm themselves to unearth a fruit. Why truffle hunters are poisoning one another’s dogs. Why suspected truffle thieves in French orchards get […]