Gina Harlow
@ginasays2
Writer, reader, cooker, eater. @narratively @statesman @HungerJournal @janusliterary @EntropyMag. Lover of toast, but not the milque kind.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. nytimes.com/2024/11/06/opi…
There's a dark truth behind Trump's tariffs: Absolute control.
"Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world." Susan Sontag on storytelling, what it means to be a decent human being, and her advice to writers themarginalian.org/2015/03/30/sus…
What we must do immediately: 1) End the use of fossil fuels 2) Build massive amounts of solar & wind 3) Electrify everything 4) Localize 5) Conserve 5) Find solutions for the last hard stuff (planes, cement) 6) Stop cutting down forests #ActOnClimate buff.ly/3r2I3Ee
Past the #horizon of mankind’s words & laws, a place where, one day, we will pause— criminals & #bastards, beings we think gods— & each will see we are each conceived to be neither right nor wrong, a place in which divisions meet, sing a single song #vsspoem #vss365 #poem #poetry
Nonfiction Editor Ramona Pilar wants to read your “Spring”-themed #nonfiction work! Send it to her by December 15: tinyurl.com/ExpoSpring. #cnf #callforsubmissions #amwriting
Zadie Smith Talks Trump and Flannery O’Connor kenyonreview.org/zadie-smith-on…
“The arc of the moral universe wants you to please wait. Your call is important to it.”
The arc of the moral universe has passed the same Pizza Hut three times. It can’t read a map for shit. The arc of the moral universe is rocking back and forth in the bathtub. The arc of the moral universe is out of ideas. mcsweeneys.net/articles/updat…
Learn character from trees, values from roots, and change from leaves. — Tasneern Harneed Have a good day! 💚 #NaturePhotography #Treepeople #london #WritingCommunity
If there was a worm dying right in front of you, would you pick it up and put it in the soil? Does it matter if you do? Why, in a universe of pain, I’m saving stranded earthworms psyche.co/ideas/why-in-a…
“Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.” ~ Cree,
Hey Trump voters. Hate to break it to you - but here’s what actually happened on Tuesday. Watch. Bernie explained it 20 years ago.
Whatever you endeavor to #pretend pretend so well pretending ends the way a bell rung once, sings on itself; pretend so well castles in the clouds if they burn down throw gold & silver #ashes on the ground; pretend so well you doubt reality without. #vsspoem #vss365 #poem #poetry
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“In times of political crisis, we seem to forget that societies are made of selves....— As such, they require of us a deep and imaginative sensitivity to other selves, ….— that hallmark of our humanity we call empathy.” themarginalian.org/2024/10/31/e-m… via @brainpickings
NEW: *700+* writers across every genre and form have just endorsed VP Kamala Harris for president, because "our lives, our families and friends, our neighbors, our democracy, and our shared humanity" are all on the line. This is so amazing.