Men! What are they thinking? We can't always answer that, but we'll be posting our favorite glimpses into their world in this space every Thursday.
* Earlier this month, an 89-year-old barber named Aaron Biber, found the
shop he'd owned for 41 years destroyed by London's rioters. Last
Wednesday, a group of advertising interns set up a website to help him
repair the shop. Within a week, visitors to the site had contributed nearly $60,000—enough to keep Aaron cutting. The kindness of strangers really never gets old. (Keep Aaron Cutting)
* Put this On, a web fashion series for men, visits the corduroy appreciation club and checks in with Gay Talese, one of the few dandies so dandy he has his own style of lapel. (Put this On)
* Relive the crushes of your youth in this slideshow of '80s athletes with their girlfriends and wives. For every Mike Tyson and Robin Givens, there's a couple that reminds us true love can span several decades—and survive the worst of mullets. (Sports Illustrated)
* Male superheroes get Wonder Woman-ized. (Bleeding Cool)
* "Fear only has as much power as we give it space."—Bright's Passage author Josh Ritter tells us what he knows for sure. (Oprah.com)
| Aaron Biber Photo: Oli Scarff/Getty Images |
* Put this On, a web fashion series for men, visits the corduroy appreciation club and checks in with Gay Talese, one of the few dandies so dandy he has his own style of lapel. (Put this On)
* Relive the crushes of your youth in this slideshow of '80s athletes with their girlfriends and wives. For every Mike Tyson and Robin Givens, there's a couple that reminds us true love can span several decades—and survive the worst of mullets. (Sports Illustrated)
* Male superheroes get Wonder Woman-ized. (Bleeding Cool)
* "Fear only has as much power as we give it space."—Bright's Passage author Josh Ritter tells us what he knows for sure. (Oprah.com)
 | The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them. — D.H. Lawrence |  |
| The connections between and among women are ... the most potentially transforming force on the planet. — Adrienne Rich | |
Every Monday,
we're rounding up things—small and big—that made us stop and think.
Today, we were captivated by a writer learning to love her red hair, a
self esteem expert who explores a health hazard of self-acceptance, the lovely Bill
Murray, and more...
"Maybe sooner or later a black or gay — or both — hero will be considered something absolutely normal."
"...At my most recent DMV trip, the guy behind the counter asked me if I wanted my license to say 'red' or 'brown.' I'd wanted to be anything but a redhead my whole life, and there I was, suddenly insulted by the mere suggestion that I might not be one. I put 'red' because anything else felt like a lie."
"There has to be a lightness; you have to be as light as you can be
and not get weighed down and stuck in your emotion, stuck in your body,
stuck in your head. You just want to always be trying to elevate
somehow."
"...I was rescued through the novelty of reading on a Kindle. My hyper-attentive habits were alienating me further and further from the much older and (one would have thought) more firmly established habits of deep attention. I was rapidly becoming a victim of my own mind's plasticity, until a new technology helped me to remember how to do something that for years had been instinctive, unconscious, natural."
"My weight hadn’t stood in the way of my dating gorgeous men or
succeeding in my career. But I couldn’t remember the last time I’d been
to the doctor. And it had been 16 years since I weighed myself...So I
didn’t know: Was I really obese? My body wasn’t anyone else’s business,
but had I done everything I could to make it my business?"
| I live in joy and motion and cover-ups. I live in the nourishment of food and the sun and the warmth of the people who love me. — Anne Lamott | |
| Summer is the time when...you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world. — Ada Louise Huxtable | |
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