Friday Inspiration, Vol. 80

Can’t stop watching … not sure what’s going on here

A Selection of the 30 Most Disappointing Under 30

“… stories swim by the millions and most of being a writer is listening and seeing and then madly scribbling.”
Brian Doyle, 1956-2017

Maybe now people will believe Chick Donohue’s story of how he flew to Vietnam to bring his old friends beer during the Vietnam War.

American life is based on a reassurance that we like one another but won’t violate one another’s privacies. This makes it a land of small talk. Two people greet each other happily, with friendliness, but might know each other for years before venturing basic questions about each other’s backgrounds.”

A report from the Mackinac Island Stone Skipping Competition.

—Brendan