b.read.crumbs: Could you repeat that, please?

Crossposting Julie Herman’s b.read.crumbs entry for July from her brand new Substack Mystery Garden.

The last year has felt like a big bunch of Can’t Even.

A long time ago, a wise person told me that life is a spiral. Often there are structural beams of ease and beams of difficulty — CANs and CAN’T EVENs — going through the layers of the spiral, and as we rise in age, we ascend the spiral, coming again and again to these beams as they intersect our path. The beams are the refrain of life: grief an...