Sunday Edition: I Don't Know How to Hold All the Feelings I Should Have in a Day

Book club is back!

The Sunday Edition is Tuesday’s little sister—off-the-cuff updates I’d bring up over a coffee catch-up with a friend.

“I don’t know how to hold all the feelings, even all the thoughts I should have in a day.”

This sentence, written by Ezra Klein last month, came back to me this morning, as I strolled around a farmers’ market in the wake of last night’s news that we bombed Iran (a move that will accomplish little besides the deaths of more American troops and Iranian civilians, and contribute to “dangerous escalations”).

Earlier today, buying flowers

It feels especially disorienting to be an American right now, selecting a bouquet of wildflowers at the same time we wage a new war. I don’t know what the answer is but I finally picked up Pulitzer Prize-winner Kathryn Schulz’s book Lost & Found this morning, which inspired Klein’s words and was highly recommended to me by my friend Percia, with the note, “There’s something divine about how she sees the world.” In it, Schulz muses on the dialectical nature of being a person, on the “cosmic playfulness of a harsh but life-granting universe,” as this review put it. If you’re interested in joining me in reading it, I’d be happy to start a book club around it, to meet in about a month (the e-book is currently on sale for $4.99). Let me know! x

Read on for the best part of every day this week, including…

• The inspirational podcast I’ve been listening to

• Sources to my outfits each day, by popular demand

• The high-protein snack I’ve been obsessed with lately

• Dispatch from my final day in Guatemala