When independent curator and writer Marvin Heiferman’s partner died from Covid, he found himself utterly bereft. Having to navigate “the gap between public and private experiences of death and grieving”, he created an amazingly beautiful and poignant form —art form really — on instagram.It is a complex and nuanced tribute to the ephemeral experience of daily life.
Read MoreRobin Williams Helps Carole Burnett Express Herself
(Video link HERE.) After a reader mentioned an episode of the Carole Burnett show riffing on The Princess and the Pea (a reference to our inability to sleep no matter what fix we do to the myseriously vibrating bed) we went hunting for it. We never found it* but stumbled on this extraordinary bit from…
Read MoreIn Newtown, a Makeshift Memorial from Random Acts of Kindness
Waking up on the one-year anniversary of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Connecticut, we found this this article about the ways that some residents in the town are choosing to memorialize the event: In the absence of an official memorial, residents here have been memorializing the victims on a daily basis…
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