I loved reading this little bit about mushrooms in Merlin Sheldrake's Entangled Life: "A mycelial network is a map of a fungus’s recent history and is a helpful reminder that all life-forms are in fact processes not things. The 'you' of five years ago was made from different stuff than the 'you' of today. Nature is an event that never stops. As William Bateson, who coined the word genetics, observed, 'We commonly think of animals and plants as matter, but they are really systems through which matter is continually passing.' " 

This newsletter is a process through which information is passing between animals, you and me. We are, in turn, systems through which matter is continually passing. It might feel like a Friday thing, but it is an event that never stops.

Some women claim to think deeply about womanhood, but have somehow never understood it has always been conditional. What will it take to raise a generation that doesn't hate their bodies? A model's memoir and what it means to live outside the norms of desirability. Supply chain, blah blah blah—we should just be buying less stuff. When "knowing your worth" really means being able to take a risk. Why are so many Americans quitting their jobs? What does sustainable child care look like? A dispatch from a Vegas hotel, a last stop before living unhoused. "There isn’t a middle ground between a livable and unlivable world." Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were unavailable for comment on Colin Powell's death. Rewriting the history of the world. A survey of America's 50,000 monuments. Katie Couric,  like her memoir, is "surprisingly spiky and weird and seemingly committed to absolute chaos." The true cost of life giving you "great material." Where ghostwriters fit into the myth of the singular genius. Can posting a thirst trap help you process grief? Superhero stories have a disability problem. How Netflix can do right by trans viewers. Why women in their 20s love TV shows about women in middle age and older. Food media, archival repair, and what we expect from recipes. Front yard gardens are for others—backyard gardens are for yourself. 

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Three beverages at once is the definition of luxury. A good spooky season playlist from Numero Group. How menopause affects the brain.

Soundtrack to this gif is "Skeletun."

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The absolutely wild level of nerdy detail in this scented candle spreadsheet by Ashley Hosmer, courtesy of Girls Night In.