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"Figured out the vibe the white house website font is giving."

Writing advice: always work toward an image, write the next part so that the story creates the image you have in mind by what happens.

Tanka challenge tanka.

"Last Love

Love at the closing of our days
is apprehensive and very tender.
Glow brighter, brighter, farewell rays
of one last love in its evening splendor.

Blue shade takes half the world away:
through western clouds alone some light is slanted.
O tarry, O tarry, declining day,
enchantment, let me stay enchanted.

The blood runs thinner, yet the heart
remains as ever deep and tender.
O last belated love, thou art
a blend of joy and of hopeless surrender."

--Fyodor Tyutchev (translated by Nabokov) via vamoul@substack.com

"Both you and SPLC show how this is the same playbook borrowed from the Right’s attempts to undermine the science behind fossil fuels, tobacco, and Covid-19."