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all the birthdays, all the days
Read more: all the birthdays, all the daysThis blog post is for everyone celebrating a birthday … any time, any day, any year. This blog post … is for you … and for everyone who has celebrated a birthday with you. I started thinking about this post a few months ago as my own birthday was approaching. Should I say something? About…
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when a sample becomes a refrain
Read more: when a sample becomes a refrainDescribed as a night of carefree joy, Laylit was founded in 2018 to celebrate Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) cultures and “to give space to the LGBTQ+ community to express themselves and have fun in complete freedom” (translated from this story en français). I went to a Laylit event with a friend, not knowing…
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“you have to learn how to live as long as you live”
Read more: “you have to learn how to live as long as you live”Well, we don’t have to … learn how to live … as long as we live … but it’s probably a good idea. The advice comes from Seneca in a letter written around 65 CE (making its way to us today via an Oxford University Press translation). I may not agree with all ideas that…