Issue 23, containing: Commonplaces, &c.

——————————

SOME EDITORIAL NOTES

Strangely, it turns out that my capacity for original words does eventually reach a limit. I’ve been working on a (very late) chapter for my editor, and the whole of my thought has been turning toward it, even while the weather improves, new people are met, and the housing market turns weird. Things I’d like to spend time noodling out here are instead being transmuted into fiction.

If I was more clever and the well ran a little deeper, I would make write out some kind of allegory here about straw having the option of being either gold or bricks. But I’m not, and it doesn’t, and so instead, below please find some commonplaces I have collected recently, and may they touch something in you as they did me.

——————————

COMMONPLACES

From Iyanla Vanzant:

You have to meet people where they are, and sometimes you have to leave them there.

******

From Ijeoma Umebinyuo’s “Confessions”, in Questions for Ada:

I have pasts inside me I did not bury properly.

******

From kafkian’s these things get louder:

The set of his mouth is determined. This must be what it looks like, when someone chooses you.

******

From Bo Burnham’s “art is dead.“:

Entertainers like to seem complicated
but we’re not complicated
I can explain it pretty easily.
Have you ever been to a birthday party for children?
and one of the children won’t stop screaming?
’cause he’s just a little attention-attractor.
When he grows up to be a comic or actor
he’ll be rewarded for never maturing
for never understanding or learning
that every day can’t be about him
“There’s other people, you selfish asshole”

******

From jdandchi:

NOT EVERYTHING IS ABOUT A GOD DAMN RELATIONSHIP AND LOSING WEIGHT AND BEING BEAUTIFUL FOR GODS SAKE GO OUTSIDE AND ROB A STORE AND FEEL ALIVE AS YOU RUN AWAY FROM SECURITY

——————————

ANNOUNCEMENTS

If you would like to write a letter to be produced/answered in the magazine, please email me at minor.hours.magazine@gmail.com with the subject line:

Letter to the Magazine: [subject of letter as you would like to see it printed]

If you wish the letter to be anonymous or under a nom de plume, please state so in the body of the email; similarly, if you’d rather not be printed at all, please also state so in the body of the email. It will otherwise be assumed that mail sent to that address is intended for print.

Alternately, commenting on this post will get you a similar result, with much less fuss.

******

-Until next week, be safe.