I don’t understand parents that try and put on a front to their kids that they’re always in charge and always OK. I understand making your kids feel safe and secure, but I also think that if you don’t show them that you struggle, when they inevitably suffer, they’re going to feel that they’re inferior in some way or that pain isn’t normal. They won’t be able to look at any examples of somebody having made it through those feelings. That’s a really problematic impulse that a lot of parents pass on to children, that anxiety that they are measuring up to “strong man daddy.”
There are no pets in this White House, no loyal man’s best friend, no Socks the family cat, no kids’ science fairs.
No time when the president takes off his blue suit red tie uniform and becomes human, except when he puts on his white shirt and khaki pants uniform and hides from the American people to play golf.
There are no images of the First Family enjoying themselves together in a moment of relaxation.
No Obamas on the beach in Hawaii moments, or Bushes fishing in Kennebunkport.
No Reagans on horseback, no Kennedys playing touch football on the Cape.
Where’d that country go?
Where did all the fun, the joy and the expression of love and happiness go?
What is dying now is so much bigger than him. It is this fantasy, this masquerade, of strength. This old, empty, puffed-up way of being a man. This economic philosophy that murders human potential in the name of birthing it. This insistence on doing one’s thing, listening to no authority ordering you to cover your orifices, and preferring death on a genocidal scale to your own yielding. This clinging to the kind of freedom that kills you.
Whole wheat sourdough with sundried tomatoes, garlic, and herbs. Adapted from this recipe using a not-as-fancy-as-it-looks scissors technique to cut the dough into this shape.
Alex Honnold Breaks Down Iconic Rock Climbing Scenes
This is really entertaining — even as someone who does not climb and has no interest in climbing. There’s something great about listening to someone deeply passionate about a topic, and I found Alex far more relatable here than in Free Solo.
