Archive - Samba to the Reckoning

June 2025

Independent Living

“If we could light up the room with pain, / we’d be such a glorious fire.” (~Ada Limon, "Bright Dead Things")

Jun 27 •

More than our fear

A letter from a New York City Jew after election day

Published on The Grudge Report • Jun 26

Nothing Is Written

“The moral freshness of the world-to-be intoxicated us. We were wrought up in ideas inexpressible and vaporous, but to be fought for." (~ T. E…

Jun 24 •

Now. Now. Now. Forever

“. . . it all comes down to this: In our imperfect world we are meant to repair and stitch together what beauty there is, stitch it.” (~ Stuart…

Jun 11 •

May 2025

April 2025

"The sweet smell of decaying paper appeals to me no longer. It is too closely associated in my mind with paranoiac customers and dead bluebottles." …

Apr 29 •

Darkness is a Shade of Light

"Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance…

Apr 28 •

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