The Matchbook | 8.4.23
Little Bits Of Light
Raise your hands if you’re confused how it’s already August 4th? Already. How are we nearly back in the loving arms of Autumn once again? I know not. Anyway, onward!
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I NEED YOUR HELP! - I mentioned this the other day on the Signal Fire Chat, but I’m gonna bring it up again here for you to all get a chance to chime in. I need your help and here’s how: I’m plotting out 2024 Signal Fire: The Sunday Edition essays, trying to shape up what I’ll one day soon be writing about, and I had a thought…I want YOUR feedback on what YOU would love to hear me write about, in my, um, unique and personal style. hahaha. So, what are some topics, as general or as specific as you like, that you think would make wonderful Sunday Editions?! I’m opening comments for everyone here, so you can all sound off.
Vonnegut On Making The Most Of Your Day - Ol’ Kurt, one of my favorite writers and just general humans, really had it down when it came to the purpose of life. He knew, better than most, the way to truly suck the marrow of each day, and his famous quote, which I won’t spoil here, on how to best make the most of your day, comes at the end of a delightful story to set it up. Read this, absorb this, and live this.
33 Tips On Being A Better Partner - It says in the url of this article that this advice is technically for men, but I think so many of the little tips apply to anyone in a relationship, anyone wanting to be a better partner to their person, whether now, or in the relationship they’ll one day be in. Which number is your favorite? Which do you need to work on more?
Talk To Me Trailer - I LOVE a scary movie…Lady G, not so much. She says she’ll only watch this with me in the workout room, whilst working out, in the day time. Lame. Anyway, A24 doesn’t usually ever put a foot wrong, and this one looks creeeeeepy.
10 Strange National Park Rules - I hate rules, always have, and I love breaking them, but turns out, I kinda like strange rules, because those are probably going to be More fun to break. Right? Logical to me. Here are 10 bizarre, but true, rules that exists in National Parks. Personal fave: No Giving Birth in the Saline Valley Hot Springs of Death Valley National Park. For all you really setting your bucket lists on having a child in a literal oven, sorry.
The Photo That Inspired The Shining - Like I said, I dig spooky stuff, movies especially. The Shining scared the pants off me when I was younger, and still does. Lady G and I actually visited the hotel that inspired it, but now, NOW friends, we have the photo that inspired the disturbingly terrifying twins from the film. Good gracious. Nope.
(Credit: Diane Arbus / Wikimedia) The Flood by The Bones of J.R. Jones - Dunno…just like it. Maybe you will too.
Typewriter Series Silliness - More spoken word poems read by yours f’ing truly. No one really sees these, as my Instagram has basically died. But that’s ok. Maybe you’ll laugh.
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You once wrote on the importance of never settling. I mirror: what then of acceptance, of the unchangeable? Or is serenity unattainable?
So much of your shared work is an encouragement, when do you lament? You cry often, do you not allow those tears to stain your pages?
Most of my journals are full of pain, did the balance between joy and sorrow come naturally, or did you fight to write it?
Weirdest shit that you have come across in your travels or anywhere, please!