This week, I am once again asking you to give Beyoncé's dud album a chance.
If you're reading this, it's time to take a break. Seriously. This isn't a gimmick. If you have deadlines, errands, family obligations, emotional baggage, or some other looming sense of anxiety keeping you down, give yourself a minute. Sometimes I have to remind myself that nothing will fall apart if I take a 30-minute break to read a good book or decompress with a fun album. In fact, I usually have a better outlook on the other side.
Shiratani Unsuikyo Ravine — which contains some of the oldest living trees in the world — in Yakushima, Japan.by Hanya Yanagihara. The best sentence from this profile of one of the oldest forests in the world is the last one. But rather than spoil it for you here, I leave you with the second-best excerpt from Yanagihara’s 2018 New York Times story: “One of the reasons Shintoism is so difficult to describe is because in it, it is likely that God has no face, or eyes; the spirit is not a reflection of us. It may not even be something living. The sacred is visible, but it isn’t necessarily relatable.
Fun fact: I hadn't realized until writing up this edition of reSEARCH that this story was written by Yanagihara, who is better known for her novels including
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