6hAs I hid in a john to jot down a few notes, I noticed that the restroom attendants cleaned the stalls after each patron’s use. (Later, I overheard a man talking to his wife on a courtesy phone: “Guess what: every time you go, there’s a guy who runs in and cleans the toilet.”)
↩︎ The New Yorker
7hSomalia is a mess to some, but on my morning walk, I see hope. Somali people are lost to some, but I see people who make the best of life. Somali children grow up so fast, but I see they are never too old to build sandcastles.
↩︎ BuzzFeed News
7hQueerness-beyond-discourse rests for a large part on the Senegalese value of sutura. Sutura does not have a direct, singular translation from Wolof into English, but it connotes discretion, modesty, privacy and protection.
↩︎ Africa Is a Country
Attention Californians, Texans, and everyone else who cares about the good things in life: fake guacamole, using Mexican squash instead of avocado, has hit the streets.
7hSeven current and former U.S. senators who demanded Franken’s resignation in 2017 told me that they’d been wrong to do so. Such admissions are unusual in an institution whose members rarely concede mistakes.
↩︎ The New Yorker
19hThe blood vessels that deliver food and oxygen—and chemotherapy drugs—to a tumor tend to be highly abnormal. Instead of the usual large, straight, simply branched vessels, [they're] often unevenly distributed, misshapen and tangled.
↩︎ Knowable Magazine
