Weekend Reads v. 26.7.2024
Big Box stores in the U.S. may be showing signs of Back to School frenzy, but I am staying firmly planted smack dab in the middle of summer, thank you very much. They can keep their Trapper Keepers and mechanical pencils, and I’ll linger just a bit longer with my wilted tomato garden and warm evenings! Hope you have a wonderful weekend ahead of you.
Supposedly the best 33 things to buy at Costco.
Pablo Escobar’s abandoned hippos are wreaking havoc in the Colombian jungle.
If you’re bored at work, here are two browser games What Beats Rock? and version of MS Paint (remember that??).
Sometimes I open up my Airbnb app and get lost looking at apartments and houses somewhere else. This round up of 10 Airbnbs along the Italian Coast tells me I’m not the only one with this hobby.
This Substack note by Marylin Simon about modern 12- to 18-year-olds caught my eye.
But as they live without sacred cows, so too do they live without the sacred. Increasingly, though, I see them yearning for meaning and for truth, but don’t know where to find it. We’ve torn down or eaten from the inside or simply abandoned the institutions that might guide them to find some meaning outside of themselves (the university and religious institutions). Where do they look? They’re not brainwashed, most of them, by the internet, being cynical and skeptical of that, too. They want meaning in a lost world, and faith in a faithless one. Strangely, the Church is alluring to them because they have no baggage attached to it, having had no contact with it for a generation or two. To be religious seems weirdly punk rock.
Loving the green in this Swedish home.
Get ready. Looks like purple is the new “it” color.
Making friends as an adult is hard. Couples making friends with other couples is even harder. Maybe this advice will help?
Related: How many hours does it take to make a friend? Hint: a lot.