Of the Week | 5.9.25
Riding the bus, home cafes, and digital critiques
Happy Friday!
I said this in my April recap, but being outdoors these days is the best. Every time I walk outside I’m newly thankful to be alive. My summer run club started back up this morning, and I truly think running with your friends in perfect weather and catching up over espressos after is a peak life experience. And I get to do it every week until September?!
And — concert season is back!
enjoying + link love //
Good thoughts from Olivia Marstall on writing about children.
I used to ride the city bus daily and have taken a couple long distance bus rides, so this post on the rich experiences found on the bus brings back fond (and some not so fond) memories.
Megha on a trendy way to facilitate community:
Turning our homes into cafés is how a generation craving connection, time, and intimacy is reinventing hospitality—less as performance, more as ritual—using the aesthetics of the coffee shop to fill the void left by vanishing third places and over-optimized social lives.
Ben Christenson takes on the new season of Black Mirror, digital critiques, and human-sized action in his newest post.
A.A. Kostas on poetry and dreaming.
this week //
Read: The Inferno by Dante, The Age of Goodbyes by Li Zi Shu
Watched: Thunderbolts*
Listened: I’m a Hurricane I’m a Woman in Love by Låpsley, Ben Khan by Ben Khan (I have vivid memories of listening to this album on the yellow line home from Jazz in the Garden during my first summer in DC as a resident… good times)
Again, I am tickled that some tabs which I had open and saved to read this week (Olivia, Ben, and A.A. Kostas) had all been gathered here. I enjoyed Olivia's piece on children. Reminds me of how I've heard education talked about, when it comes to the philosophy behind classical models vs. modern schooling.
Interested in that Greyhound bus piece. I used the MegaBus and Greyhound sometimes with friends, going between undergrad in TN and home in MN. Also tons of memories taking public transit during a short time lived in NYC. It's a whole *experience,*