"To counter inhumanity we must expose our tender belly flesh." YES!
Thank you for this uplifting post. I've read a lot of reaction pieces to the deluge of bad news in the first weeks of 2025, and most of those have been calls to anger and to arms. Once the dust settles and we have decades of hindsight, everyone will remember that underneath it all, we are all just humans with tender belly flesh, struggling to find our footing in this world.
Not a total overlap in topic, but you reminded me of a Wait but Why post called "Religion for the Nonreligious" from almost 10 years ago that a friend sent me when I was struggling with things beyond my control. It changed the way I look at interactions with strangers. What we do today certainly matters, and can change the trajectory of someone else's day or life.
Thanks, Amy. It's good to read something that helps to glue the pieces back together, rather than yet another shattering news story. I'm saving this one. Thank you.
Love this Amy, and I will keep trying to do my best to live it too. Thanks for writing this up. Especially like the idea that I am someone else’s “other people” and should act accordingly.
You and Paul Crenshaw have single-(actually, double)handedly opened my eyes to the excellence of state colleges (or their faculty, at least). You are two of the best writers around, regardless of subject matter, but this is one of your best posts yet.
Thank you so much for some much needed optimism, and the reminder of the fragilities and possibilities in out daily interactions.
Thank you! I actually work at a private university, Drake University in Des Moines, but my education was 100% state schools, so I'm still taking the compliment ;-)
I like reading you so much. Live as if the world you want to live in is already here. Live mentally as if in a tent.
"To counter inhumanity we must expose our tender belly flesh." YES!
Thank you for this uplifting post. I've read a lot of reaction pieces to the deluge of bad news in the first weeks of 2025, and most of those have been calls to anger and to arms. Once the dust settles and we have decades of hindsight, everyone will remember that underneath it all, we are all just humans with tender belly flesh, struggling to find our footing in this world.
Not a total overlap in topic, but you reminded me of a Wait but Why post called "Religion for the Nonreligious" from almost 10 years ago that a friend sent me when I was struggling with things beyond my control. It changed the way I look at interactions with strangers. What we do today certainly matters, and can change the trajectory of someone else's day or life.
https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/10/religion-for-the-nonreligious.html
I’ve only read a fraction so far but I love the little cartoons, they’re funny but also really clarifying :)
I needed this very badly today, Amykins. ♥️ Thank you.
Thanks, Amy. It's good to read something that helps to glue the pieces back together, rather than yet another shattering news story. I'm saving this one. Thank you.
Love this Amy, and I will keep trying to do my best to live it too. Thanks for writing this up. Especially like the idea that I am someone else’s “other people” and should act accordingly.
You and Paul Crenshaw have single-(actually, double)handedly opened my eyes to the excellence of state colleges (or their faculty, at least). You are two of the best writers around, regardless of subject matter, but this is one of your best posts yet.
Thank you so much for some much needed optimism, and the reminder of the fragilities and possibilities in out daily interactions.
Thank you! I actually work at a private university, Drake University in Des Moines, but my education was 100% state schools, so I'm still taking the compliment ;-)