Mining The Ruins - by Heather Havrilesky - Ask Polly
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Your lowest moments, filled with sadness, alienation, disappointment, and longing, are precious resources in the wider story of your life.
In the Wilderness (1952) by Helen Lundeberg This perfect profile of SZA by Danyel Smith made me cry three times on Saturday morning before I was even out of bed. But at first I’ll admit that I was unsettled by all of the active verbs: The world’s deepest ocean appears on your left, a vast and breathing GIF. Moons charm bloodstreams, and dolphins model fortitude. Hawks plunge for fat mackerel, and riptides drag fools far out and forever under waves that from the shore look like peace and possibility. That’s very good prose but it can also be a red flag in a celebrity profile, a signal that…
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