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Splash No. 160 - Tenderness

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Subscribe Past Issues RSS Translate View this email in your browser Tenderness A torrential tenderness has been washing over me lately — at a given moment, any small thing can push me to the verge of tears: from characters on TV giving a speech about friendship to a poem about trees to a picture of a cat that thinks she’s a dog. And more often than not, it’s all of the above. Perhaps I should gaze up at the stars and attribute it all to Cancer Season, known for emotional intensity. With their size and motion and all that we still don’t know about them, it feels reasonable that they could be in cahoots to make me cry. Or maybe it’s the weather; San Francisco continues to confuse, with most days requiring multiple layers, except for a warm hour or two a day. Truly the dog days of summer. This softness has felt like a superpower, helping me to engage with things I already thought important more deeply. Although I’ve already been contending with big questions of the world, my disc

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